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{ 2007 02 25 }

Spam as an incentive

I’ve finally taken the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and I’ve got the incredible volume of blog spam I receive and the shiny new Akismet wordpress plugin to thank for that. It only works with WordPress 2.x so if that isn’t motivation to upgrade, I don’t know what is!

And in the last 5 minutes, it’s already caught it’s first spam comment…

Hopefully I haven’t flodded Planet GNOME or any other syndication site that I’m not aware of. Onwards and upwards :-)

Posted by Philip Langdale on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at 10:02. Filed under Incoherent Rambling. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Luis Villa | 25th February 2007 at 11:32 | Permalink

    BTW, I also strongly recommend bad behavior.

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