Akismet kills Comment Spam dead.
Posted by Jeff September 21, 2006
I feel terrible when I come across a good blog dripping in spam — the time wasted moderating all that crap! I installed Akismet (free) a while back, and spam hasn’t been a problem since.
Akismet is a centralized service to recognize blog comment spam. It works beautifully - you just never see spam comments. Akismet stats say 92% of comments are spam. I use the Wordpress plugin - they have API’s and plugins for most blog engines and languages (Java,Python,etc).
Wired covered it in their recent Splog article.
