blog spam and wordpress - best way to get rid of it?

[Robin Paulson]

i started getting comments on my blog recently. most of them are spam,
which i'm ok with deleting for the moment.

can anyone recommend a good spam plug in for wordpress?

akismet is advertised quite heavily, but i'm not keen on having to sign
up for an API key - the whole tracking thing is something i want to get
away from if possible.

any suggestions?

[Dave Lane]

Hi. http://mollom.com is what we use on Drupal. Rocks.

Dave

Post by Robin Paulson
i started getting comments on my blog recently. most of them are spam,
which i'm ok with deleting for the moment.
can anyone recommend a good spam plug in for wordpress?
akismet is advertised quite heavily, but i'm not keen on having to sign
up for an API key - the whole tracking thing is something i want to get
away from if possible.
any suggestions?

[Dan Richardson]

+1 for Mollom, they have a Wordpress plug in and it seems to be the best
comment spam filter.

Post by Dave Lane
Hi. http://mollom.com is what we use on Drupal. Rocks.
Dave

Post by Robin Paulson
i started getting comments on my blog recently. most of them are spam,
which i'm ok with deleting for the moment.
can anyone recommend a good spam plug in for wordpress?
akismet is advertised quite heavily, but i'm not keen on having to sign
up for an API key - the whole tracking thing is something i want to get
away from if possible.
any suggestions?

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[Robin Paulson]

Post by Dan Richardson
+1 for Mollom, they have a Wordpress plug in and it seems to be the best
comment spam filter.

Post by Dave Lane
Hi. http://mollom.com is what we use on Drupal. Rocks.

so i gave mollom a go. there were two rather major issues with it in my
opinion:
it blocked some comments which weren't spam, and
there is no list of comments which have been blocked - apparently by
design. so, no way to make sure it's doing it right, and retrieve
erroneously blocked comments

i only found out they were blocked because people emailed me

any recommendations from users of other filters/services?

cheers,