- To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments
- From: sonia <sonia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:25:23 +1000
- User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)
* Harrison Conlin <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-06-05 17:29:39 +1000]:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Sonia Hamilton <sonia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Outsource it. I now host mine on wordpress.com (for $free), they do all
> > that boring stuff. About one spam comment every 2 months gets thru their
> > filters.
>
> Or you can use the same software as wordpress.com uses, Akismet [1].
> Last time I checked it comes with wordpress, all you need is a
> wordpress.com API key [2] which is free.
Yes, I used to do that. But then there's the tedium of keeping up with
patches for the software, as well as patches for any addons.