[wp-hackers] What is up with Akismet?

Matt Mullenweg m at mullenweg.com
Tue Dec 4 07:55:21 GMT 2007


Jeremy Visser wrote:
> I know Akismet is working -- it still catches around 20 spam comments
> a day, but one or two get through. Perhaps spammers have been abusing
> the Akismet API by submitting spam as ham to confuse the bayesian
> filter?

You can't fool Akismet that way, they've been trying that since the 
beginning. :)

If you send your API key to the support form on akismet.com/support I'll 
take a look at it personally.

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Matt Mullenweg
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