Apparently Akismet is having a hard time at the moment. Someone's
dumping a major spam run at the moment (Akismet had to deal with ~3m
spam posts in one day a few days ago), and this possibly took down
typepad briefly.

Aside - Akismet is probably a nice example of a single point of
failure, it despams many millions of blogs/sites, and I'm sure that
it's on a lot of spammer hit lists.

They've tweaked their algo's to try to better handle what they call
"random nonsense content", so it's possibly a combination of these
tweaks and the loading that's causing hiccups.

Akismet  blog post on this -
http://akismet.com/blog/2006/10/tres-million/

-Simon


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