Spam Filter Working Overtime

Askimet is a great spam filter, but at times it does too good of a job. I have had a number of people email me telling me that their comments have gone into the spam file. Usually, I try to go through the spam folder to see if any good comments have been caught. However, this week I am on vacation, and the amount of time I am online is drastically reduced.

Tuesday night I checked the spam folder and well over spam 3000 comments had been caught by the filter. I checked about 10 pages, and there was only one comment that could be considered to be a good comment. The rest of the comments were deleted.

Yesterday, I did check several times throughout the day, and there were no good comments caught by the spam filter. This morning, after our breakfast trip to Palm Beach, I checked the Spam folder, and well over 1500 spam comments have been caught. Sorry to say, but I am not going to be going through all those comments on my vacation.

Spam Filter Caught Your Comments?

If you have made a comment, and it was not published, but feel it was a good comment, I am sorry, and hope you will comment again.

  1. Don’t leave comments with excessive links, as anything over two links is filtered.
  2. Make sure your comment relates to the post.

How do you handle spam comments? Do you have commenting guidelines?

Written by Pixelhead on April 3rd, 2008 with 27 comments.
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