Tag Archives: spam

WordPress Users: Less Spam and Better Stats

I couldn’t help but notice two wonderful new WordPress plugins today.
Hate the sorting through the hundreds of obvious spam messages Akismet caught just to find that one legitimate comment? Derek Punsalan found a new WordPress plugin which aims to remove the obvious spam comments. I can already see Simple Spam Filter becoming a vital tool [...]

Back From the Dead

If you’re reading this, my website is back online. For the last twenty-four hours my webhost has had major problems. It started with a comment spam attack late last night, which flooded their servers, basically causing a denial of service attack. After the spam onslaught came to an end, my host had to rebuild several [...]