Spam be gone!
June 11th, 2008
I’m logging in to the blog’s admin panel and I see this:
For a second I thought “Am I really THAT popular?!”, but of course, I’m not :-(. It turns out that I’ve been hit by spam bots (again).
Luckily for me word-press already got a plug-in to handle spam called akismet, you just have to activate it.
To do this you have to register an account at wordpress.com to get a API-key. I know I have an account there, but I couldn’t remember my password. You might think the “lost password”-function would fix the problem, but it didn’t. I got the “warning” mail with a site to visit if I wanted to reset my password. I pressed the link and a message tells me to wait for an email with my new password. After two days of waiting I decided to try again, but with the same result. Since the something obviously wasn’t the way it should be I had to register a new account to finally get my API-key and activate aksimet.
If aksimet keeps Mr. spambot away I would say that all the trouble was worth it.