What do Nicholas Cage, David Carradine, Susan Hayward, Richard Burton and a whole host of Hollywood stars past and present have in common? Their names have been hijacked by blog spammers, according to glitch, Akismet really is an excellent service which learns from the collective feedback of everyone who uses it. Then there's trackback spam. Again, loads of it this weekend, mostly from one particular site trying to connect to my splog so I marked them all as spam. That action sent my choices to Akismet to add this info to their database. From that point on, all other trackback requests (more than 20 so far) have been stopped automatically by Akismet. Originally developed for available as a plugin for blogs running API key which you can get only by starting a blog on the hosted Akismet Spam Count which lets any visitor here know how many spams Akismet has stopped. No other use, really! It's in the sidebar on the right under the heading "The War Against Spam." Over 1,340 spams stopped dead so far since I started this blog at the end of February. Small beer, though, compared to the DiggThis | NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.
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