I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet’s “Recheck Spam” button (or something like that. It didn’t seem like such a problem at the time, but then I got swamped with so much trackback and comment spam that the flood DOS‘d my server. I had to disable [...]

Posted April 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: akismet, recheck, spam, workaround. Be the first one.

The Viagra and Cialis knock-offs being pushed in so much of the spam I get may be directed at things the recipients feel very personally about, but the message itself has never been personal. Well, it had never seemed personal to me, anyway, until now.
Clay Shirky pointed out what I’ve started to see, and wonder [...]

Posted March 13, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: cialis, personal, personalization, profiling, spam, spam filtering, spam filters, this stock is going to explode, viagra. One Comment.

I awoke this morning to a bit of a mess. After enjoying months of spam-free bliss thanks to Akismet, I found over a hundred spam comments for pills and free pictures to suit most any need or desire. Spam has snuck through before, but never in this volume, and Akismet has always been quick to [...]

Posted August 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: akismet, customer support, matt mullenweg, spam, support, user relations, user support. 3 Comments.

I’ve been getting spam, a lot of spam; 3400 spam comments and trackbacks in the last two months or so. So it was a relief to find Akismet, a networked spam blocking plugin for WordPress. They claim to have blocked 318,825 spams since its release, and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

tags: akismet, comment spam, [...]

Posted November 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: akismet, comment spam, spam, spam a lot, spam blocking, spams, trackback spam, wordpress. Be the first one.

John Martin was kind enough to lead a session on spam management Tuesday (November 8th). Here was the description:
Spam is annoying and often offensive, but it’s a fact of life for all of us. John Martin will lead a discussion about how we can limit the amount of spam we see using tools running on [...]

Posted November 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: battle against spam, email addresses, john martin, junk mail, outlook, phishing, plymouth state university, psu, spam, spam management, spam management tools, tech tuesdays, tools, war against spam. Be the first one.

Some time ago, a box with the above pictured contents went to Chuck Robidoux. He wrote back:
Nothing starts a Monday off like Kippered Seafood Snacks and Deviled Ham with a side of Spam and Potted Meat Food Product followed by Vienna Sausage, all washed down with some icey cold Clam Juice.
Now I am ready to [...]

Posted October 4, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: canned, canned meat, deviled ham, meat, potted meat, spam, vienna sausages. One Comment.