{"id":12321,"date":"2008-05-30T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/30\/typepad-anti-spam-akismet-for-movable-type.html"},"modified":"2008-05-30T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T17:01:05","slug":"typepad_anti_spam_akismet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/typepad_anti_spam_akismet.html","title":{"rendered":"TypePad Anti-Spam (Akismet) for Movable Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spam, spam, spam, spam ...\" height=\"104\" alt=\"spam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/spam.jpg\" width=\"104\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>One of the new announcements from SixApart (aside from MT 4.2) is making the (beta)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/antispam.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TypePad Anti-Spam service<\/a> (based on Akismet) <a href=\"http:\/\/antispam.typepad.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">available to MT 3 and 4 users<\/a> (and WP 2.3\/2.5).<\/p>\n<p>Akismet is an external service that does various tests of the items (comments, trackbacks, etc.)&nbsp;as they come in, flagging them as good or not, but also accepting further feedback if someone reports something as spam that was accepted as good (or vice-versa). It&#8217;s been WordPress-oriented in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Akismet has long been on my radar for anti-spam, but previous implementations for MT always looked a little problematic. Fact is, I don&#8217;t have a big spam problem here using the SpamLookup plugins that came with recent versions of MT. They tend to block out 99% of what&#8217;s out there (actually, from a Comment perspective, TinyTuring does the bulk of the job; most of what gets nailed \/ rejected &#8212; or inadverntely let through &#8212;&nbsp;is Trackback spam).<\/p>\n<p>My questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> If it ain&#8217;t broke, should I fix it?<\/li>\n<li> Is the added traffic (checking items at&nbsp;the service site) a network\/server burden or&nbsp;lag?<\/li>\n<li> Should I wait for it to get out of beta?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My inclination is to wait at least a bit to get some sense of the feedback on the Net about how it&#8217;s working (I&#8217;ve also subscribed to the blog&nbsp;6A has put together for this). 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