Akismet is not perfect after all
I have blogged before about using Akismet and how good it is for preventing comment Spam. However, every so often the great plug-in misses. Now the idea is that it should learn whenever I mark a comment as Spam. I have a post which gets 1-2 comments which are spam every day. It’s the same post (and I will link to it in a moment) every single time. And Akismet misses it EVERY single time.
I have a moderation rule setup in Wordpress which puts any comment containing more than a certain number of links to be put on the moderation queue, and I have to moderate 1-2 comments every day. And each of these comments comes on this post about using Macros in Word. I mark each one as Spam and yet Akismet doesn’t learn.
Mind you, it does do a good job of marking other comments as Spam and blocking them. But this particular post gets spam comments and it doesn’t do a thing. What’s more is that the comments are all from the same email domain: mail.ru. Does this mean that some Russian spammer has figured out a way to fool Akismet?
I don’t want to install another anti-spam plug-in because despite this aberration Akismet still rocks.
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April 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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