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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">Is anybody else experiencing extraordinarily long response times from <br>
the Akismet server?</blockquote><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><span></span><br>
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I'm just in the process of talking to Barry about it. It looks like a keep-alive issue. If you can change your akismet class to send HTTP/1.0 and not HTTP/1.1 that should help.<br><br>Michael.<br></body></html>