[spam-stopper] I'm Being Listed as Spam

Shayne O'Neill shayne at perthimc.asn.au
Wed Sep 13 05:20:29 UTC 2006


Ah ok. My bad. The akismet stuff Im doing isnt the wordpress plugin , but 
some custom stuff for a custom site.

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Douglas Bell wrote:

> This occurs on any website that uses Akismet spam blocking, not just my 
> website.
> --Douglas Bell
> On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Paul Westbrook wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>   The WordPress plugin will not consider the comment spam until it is able 
>> to connect to the server an the server returns "true".
>> 
>> --Paul
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> It might be possible its not contacting the server. Perhaps try tweaking 
>>> the code so if it cant see the server, rather then return a "yes its 
>>> spam", return "no its not", and be aware this wont help the spam issue 
>>> much.
>>> 
>>> I had to comment out some stuff during a wierd ISP period where I couldnt 
>>> see the server.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Douglas Bell wrote:
>>>>> Nowadays, when I post a comment on my blog, Akismet keeps on classifying 
>>>>> it as spam. I keep marking it as a false positive, but is there any way 
>>>>> to rectify this? I don't like having to keep going into Akismet prefs to 
>>>>> unspam my own comments, and on other people's websites, my comments flat 
>>>>> out don't show up. Ever. This is really getting annoying, and I'd like 
>>>>> to see this fixed.
>>>> 
>>>> This list is for development, not support. Try this out:
>>>> 
>>>> http://akismet.com/contact/
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Matt Mullenweg
>>>> http://photomatt.net | http://wordpress.org
>>>> http://automattic.com | http://akismet.com
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>> --
>> Paul Westbrook
>> paul at westbrooks.org
>> <http://www.westbrooks.org>
>> 
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