Oct 07 2008
Damm that spam!
Over the past few weeks the amount of spam that we have received in our comments has skyrocketed. So much so that in our haste to clean out the thousands of spam comments, we managed to delete all of the good ones as well (so now it appears that nobody has ever commented on anything we have written - wonderful).
While we have Akismet anti-spam installed, it wasn’t working properly. We kept getting the message that Akismet could not find the server and register the api key. Turns out that we needed to amend our php.ini file and turn fopen on, and open a port to Akismet’s IP address. It was oddly difficult to find this information.
So now we have made the changes, our API key is registered and now all we have to do is sit back and see if this sucker really works.
