[spam-stopper] Obvious spam getting through?

[Sarah King]

Mine have been fine, but a couple of weeks back it was ugly.

New trick used today though, post a joke with a couple of links at the end.
Therefore the text looks like regular well formed sentences & the blog owner
might actually think it's legit. By marking as spam we increase the risk
that akisment (et al) will learn the wrong stuff and we'll get more false
positives!

Sarah

On 12/8/06, Richard Williamson <oldguy at oldguy.us> wrote:
>
>  Last day or two I've been seeing some obvious spam getting through
> Akismet that were trapped by my number of links test. These comments are
> composed of nothing but links. Anyone else seeing the same?
>
> Not all such comments get past Akismet. It does trap other similar posts
> which has me somewhat confused as to why some are getting through and not
> others.
>
> BTW, this is in a guestbook application not wordpress. But the application
> has heretofore been working fine and no recent changes have been made to it.
>
> Richard
>
>  Richard Williamson
> Portland, Oregon USA
> www.oldguy.us - Skype: noldguy
>
> _______________________________________________
> spam-stopper mailing list
> spam-stopper at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/spam-stopper
>
>
>


-- 
Sarah King
Estatement Ltd
p: 09 815 8642
m: 025 277 5898
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/spam-stopper/attachments/20061208/1e2aa7bb/attachment.htm>