On spam and comments

April 24, 2008 on 9:36 pm | In personal |

Since switching to Google hosting for my personal e-mail, all of my Wordpress ‘comments pending approval’ e-mails have been silently going to my spam folder. I just finished digging through the 4000 messages that queued up. Damn comment spam.

Apologies to those whose comments were delayed. I’ve corrected the e-mail issue, and I’ll do a better job of staying on top of comment moderation from now on.

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  1. I use Akismet (http://akismet.com/) and Simple Trackback Validation (http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/simple-trackback-validation/) on my blog. There is still some spam which lands in the queue, but its acceptable.

    Comment by Jörn Zaefferer — April 25, 2008 #

  2. Yeah, Akismet works really well. The problem is that Dreamhost frequently changes the WP install out from under me. When they do that, Akismet and all other plugins are disabled, so I wind up with thousands of queued comments.

    Comment by Ryan Breen — April 29, 2008 #

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