Akismet, Are You Sending Me Spam?
Dear Akismet,
Are you sending me spam? I now have you working within eight of my WordPress powered sites, and man have I been impressed by your spam crushing capabilities. On my Mudsugar website alone you have caught 29,186 spam. But wait a minute. I’ve noticed something weird on my last three Akismet installations. From the moment I activated your plugin you were already catching an abundance of spam at levels that I hadn’t seen prior to your activation. I didn’t say anything the last couple of times and I pretty much put it off as coincidence, but this time I have no choice but to confront you with my findings.
I had my photoblog running for about three months and in that time I was averaging about 2 to 3 spam a week. Not that big of a deal and not too hard to handle but I decided to active you anyway. Wow, within the next day (Feb. 19th) you had already captured 32 spam. And now, 8 days later, you’ve blocked 194 spam and counting. That’s amazing!! Or is it? Are you sending spam directly to me just to show off your great powers? I have every reason at this point to believe that this is what you’re doing. Really, if this is what’s happening then please stop. You don’t have to flex your muscles for me to love you. I know what you can do and I really do appreciate you just the way you are.
All the Best,
Cary