This is interesting, Akismet (short for Automattic Kismet – not that that helps ;) is Matt’s latest venture into the comments spam wars.
It’s new in terms of WordPress plugins because it uses the API key that having a wordpress.com blogs gives and, presumably, develops protection intelligently from there.
Oh, btw, I’ve got 1 invite at the moment which I’ll give to the first person to leave a comment on this post asking for it… although apparently using Flock can also get you on (although I wouldn’t know as I’m not ‘admin’ on this machine, even though I can get admin rights, Flock won’t let me install and Lol doesn’t want me screwing with her PC ;)
Anyway, bandwidth problems aren’t showing any sign of calming down with using a robots.txt file so now I have to figure out how to find the ip range and try and block that through .htaccess instead… wish me luck.
I would like the invite please.
-steve
hold that invite …I will use flock to get one
thanks
steve
I’m finding Akimet fun. And have already picked up some spam it didn’t. :)
Good luck with Mr Google bots distant relative. I remember being hammered on one of my blogs ages ago.
What has he stolen from you thus far?
Aw, only 8 gig or so this month!!!
How big a slice of your pie is that when you take into account the 1500+ edu blogs usage? :) I wouldn’t think its much…
More than you want though!
The problem is that my pie ‘aint that big… and it’s supporting about 10 different sites! But the end of th emonth is round the corner so we should be ok and we’re IP banning at the mo which should help too.
My latest thought are that it isn’t an imposter, it’s just that the googlebot like a giant oil tanker in motion takes more than a couple of days to turn around.