"Don't get me wrong, everything the media writes is not wrong. But I'd say 99 percent of it is wrong, in my opinion, but I don't read the newspaper, so I don't know. I hear things, though."
-- R.W. McQuarters

Akismet still has to learn this one

WordPress users: Anyone else encountering a different type of spam recently? What they’re doing is putting garbage on line 1, a legit link on line 2, and a spam link on line 3, and it’s slipping by Akismet. They look something like this:

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FEC Wants ClintonGore Campaign To Repay Matching Funds [CNN link]

http://www.obviousspamlink.com

It should be noted that LEP is a relative lightweight when it comes to getting spammed, because I’m not using a WordPress server–almost a year and “only” 790 spam comments. So maybe this has been going on for a while and I’m just out of the loop.

April 19th, 2008 2 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Science/Technology

  1. chessloser posted the following on 19 April 2008 at 9:31 pm.

    i’m at about 2000+ spam comments now, akismet even gets some of the legit ones people leave that might have a link in them…

        Reply to chessloser
  2. Donnie posted the following on 21 April 2008 at 11:42 am.

    That Tacticus guy is suspicious; he knows how to program. But Akismet stopping him from stuffing secret spam on your site…

        Reply to Donnie

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