Akismet Spam queue:What happens to them?
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It’s interesting to see my blog’s spam queue that Akismet technology has caught.
We only have the option to delete all (or de-spam). Where is the option button to report the spam to the appropriate spam-fighting legal authority? What does WordPress do to report the spams that have been caught?
Since creating my blog, I have used comment moderation. I did not activate Akismet as, in previous experience, the comment moderation was effective. It is only since Akismet was activated automatically by some mysterious method about one week ago (I’ve been on WordPress since mid-june07) that more spams have appeared in my spams-caught number and in my spam queue; prior to that it was negligible/zero respectively.
Something to consider, boys? I certainly have a viewpoint, based on e-mailed notifications of comments received, that kinda scares me a little.
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Um, you may want to read the sticky at the top of the forums. :)
Akismet has been in place pretty much since day 1and is active on all of the blogs here at wp.com. There is no such thing as a ‘spam-fighting legal authority’ although you can take the time and report it yourself.
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wow
if everybody was to email to relevant authorities about spammers in their blog..
i guess the wordpress team would be buried in spammed comments.. -
I would suspect that the reason for the increase is that the spammers caught up to you. I had the same exeperience going months with virtually no spam, and then it seemed like overnight the numbers increased substantially. Luckily Akismet was there to catch them so I didn’t have to sort through 40 or 50 a day (well, OK per week (-: ).
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There is no such thing as a ‘spam-fighting legal authority’ although you can take the time and report it yourself.
Here in Australia there is, and I know in America there is.
Um, you may want to read the sticky at the top of the forums. :)
Yes, I am aware of it, and have replied therein too. This is a different question, but thanks for the suggestion. :-)
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Would love to know who you’re talking about when you say ‘spam-fighting legal authority’ because I’ve been on the SPAM-L Mail list for many many years now and we’ve never found one.
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@drmike — legal authority. In Australia it’s a federal government department, and from my security software manufacturer, I believe there is a similar setup in America too, probably in other countries too. One reports the appropriate details of the spam received and they try and deal with it by legal action as it’s such a huge global problem. How I deal with any spam received is handled within my email client program — a specially designed spam-reporting button (it’s an ActiveX control). I press that button, it then somehow gathers the spam email details and sends it off to the relevant section within that govt. dept. for action. I know they receive these spams I’ve reported, as I asked them. They have their own website.
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