Akismet has caught 15,340 spam for you since you first installed it.
Isn’t that nice? I love Akismet - I haven’t a clue as to how to pronounce akismet but I do feel like kissing “A ‘Kiss’ met” when I get messages like this. I never saw the link spam and neither did you. That’s like found money or getting an extra hour of your life back.
They deserve a Nobel prize or something for Akismet. I can see why young digital-savvy media consumers prefer their Twitter, Facebook, SMS and IM away messages. They are spam free and that just goes to show you how much smarter they are than the rest of us. When I do actually get a reply from a young journalist by e-mail. it is clear they are stooping down to use my preferred way to communicate. Most of the time they are also smart enough to use Google or Yahoo addresses that keep their e-mail lives spam free as well.
I am using my Google and Yahoo accounts more and find that my best solution for my company’s accounts right now is to employ a Mac with Spamsieve installed to monitor all of my IMAP mail server accoounts. That does tend to keep the old laptop and iPhone spam free but why could I not get the spam technology Google or Akismet uses to run on my Web host instead?
Boxtrapper - no good. Spam assassin - waste of time. We need the good stuff.
Lately I noticed I was getting way too many Facebook e-mail notices and realized that I could tell Facebook what specific events should trigger a notification. You know, like only bug me if a friend sends me a message in Facebook. Seems more and more people in my network are using the private messaging services built into the social networking platforms on Facebook and Visual Editors. And I like them too. These systems allow you to have e-mail capability and bypass the nastier and nastier spam messages.
Perhaps the surest way is to just use an encrypted contact form.
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