Spam incorporating blog URL

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  alexandriablog · Member · Apr 7, 2011 at 2:14 am

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  Does anyone happen to know how Akismet plans on handling spam that incorporates a blog’s own URL?

  I have been receiving a few that contain aleksandreia.wordpress.com. Some Akismet plucked out, a more recent one it passed through; this latter one I manually entered, sans my own URL, of course.

  I ask, obviously, because if Akismet begins blacklisting the URLS of the very blogs it is designed to guard, I foresee a problem.

  Thanks.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  alexandriablog · Member · Apr 7, 2011 at 2:17 am

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  And, BTW, how do I prevent WordPress.com from automatically assigning my entry here to a dead, hidden blog, namely, alexandriablog.wordpress.com? I specifically clicked aleksandreia.wordpress.com to set up this entry.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 7, 2011 at 2:58 am

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  On the Akismet issue, I haven’t a clue. I’ll tag this for staff attention and hopefully they will respond.

  For the site linked to your username, go to users > my profile and you can change the site linked to your username there.

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  alexandriablog · Member · Apr 7, 2011 at 3:39 am

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  Thanks, thesacredpath

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 7, 2011 at 3:48 am

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  You’re welcome. You can also contact Akismet directly at http://akismet.com/ . That actually might be faster in the long run.