Just Like (a) Human

I’m at the library this morning before I go to my appointment at 10:30 today, checking my email, and making sure that the spammers aren’t goofing up the blog with their crap. I had one ‘comment’ to moderate, which was spam, as usual.

I went to check the stuff that Akismet had protected me, and noticed that Akismet has blocked (a bit past) its 20,000th spam comment on this weblog.

I can remember when I used to have to delete spam manually, and the ungodly amount of false positives that I managed to get with everything else in place. While I’d really rather put something in that would spare this server the trouble of even processing these stupid messages in the first place, I’m grateful for the protection that I get by even using Akismet in the first place.

[tags]Akismet, Automattic, WordPress, Spam Protection[/tags]