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Spamnesia
I’ve been blissfully suffering from Spamnesia lately – the complete lack of awareness of spam.
I learned my lesson last night, as I upgraded to WordPress 2.5. In the whole process of the upgrade, my spam-killer plugins (Akismet and Bad Behavior) were out of commission for no more than 90 seconds. Upon re-entry, I had nine spam comments waiting for moderation. That’s a clip of 360/hour.
Reminder: turn full moderation on whenever you deactivate your Spam-killers. And thanks to those WordPress developers who keep me a blissful Spamnesiac.
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, wordpress, spam[/tags]
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