Spam count increasing but not reviewable

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  rosedalegardens · Member · Aug 19, 2010 at 3:33 am

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  My spam count from Akismet has been increasing, but if you go to review them for deleting or ok, nothing is there. In the last 5 only 1 was reviewable. Just wondering why? Mary

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 19, 2010 at 5:49 am

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  Any spam from well-known spamming sites and such are deleted automatically before they get to your spam queue. Any spams that there is any question about, will be sent to your spam queue.

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  rosedalegardens · Member · Aug 20, 2010 at 3:11 am

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  Thank you. It’s nice not having to delete those. Mary

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 20, 2010 at 5:19 am

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  You’re welcome. On my self-hosted blog, I get around 200 most days and have to go through all of them to make sure the spam filter hasn’t caught any legitimate commenters, and it is a pain. I have one client that gets around 1500 per day that he has to go through. Having Akismet throw out the known spammers takes a big load off of bloggers.