I find it highly amusing that Akismet has its servers at Layered Tech, which in those very same racks is hosting large numbers of high-volume blog spammers. I find it highly disappointing that I've never been able to get Layered Tech to do anything about those high-volume blog spammers.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Benj. Mako Hill</b> <<a href="mailto:mako@atdot.cc">mako@atdot.cc</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've worked around this situation temporarily by putting one of the two<br>hosts (<a href="http://72.21.44.242">72.21.44.242</a> or <a href="http://72.232.207.234">72.232.207.234</a>) into my /etc/hosts file for<br><a href="http://rest.akismet.com">
rest.akismet.com</a>.<br></blockquote></div>