Note to self: Don’t Forget to Activate Akismet!

Posted on November 27, 2008
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In the words of the good old Monty Python song. I hate Spam!

So how on earth did I forget to activate Akismet? I have been absolutely bombarded with spam comments and it’s overloaded my inbox and it makes me want to shout really loudly in a silly voice “I hate spam”.

Well that’s not true - my mum used to make us spam fritters when I was a little girl and I recall them being quite nice! But I’m older now and my memory’s not what it used to be and Jamie Oliver would have my guts for garters if I tried serving that up to my kids. But I digress.

When I set up my site locally I don’t have to worry about using Akismet - comments aren’t something to bother me in my own little localhost environment. Nearly everyone in my local world seems to be nice to me and I am quite happy tinkering about.

But out in the big wide WWW there are some really nasty creatures out there who want to make my life a misery when I don’t even know them. Well not any more!

I headed over to Wordpress.com, got myself a good old API key - and the spammers are hopefully gone.

Are there any other things I can do to protect myself from spam? Please leave a comment - no spam allowed though!

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