Akismet really works

Two weeks after I disovered and integrated CFAkismet, my spam tally stands at 1, with no false positives. Before I added it in, I was deleting 100+ spam comments per day.

Akismet, the comment spam solution created by the people who brought the world WordPress, is an awesome concept: it works spectacularly well, and is not anywhere near as invasive as CAPTCHA routines. Shame that everytime I type the name I spell it wrong. Heartily recommended!

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Published:: 09.20.06 / 10am

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Michael Sharman November 18, 2008

It doesn’t sound like you need to, but there is another CF based anti-spam lib called cfformprotect from Jake Munson.

http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/

It uses a few cool techniques to quarantine spam but also used akismet (like Brandon’s you need an API key).

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I’ve been a ColdFusion developer since around 2000, when I started with CF version 4.01. I’m involved with my local Perth ColdFusion User Group as well as AWIA, the Australian Web Industry Assocation. I write for SitePoint on ColdFusion and am part of the Adobe Ambassador program.

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