Running WP-Spamfree means that Akismet doesn't have to ever touch the majority of spam. While it may not make a huge difference, the communication of spam to Akismet and the response back could amount to significant bandwidth/processor usage on less robust hosts. WP-Spamfree -- and other solutions, like Bad Behavior -- help squelch spam so that further filtering is used far less often.
-- Rick Beckman http://rickbeckman.org/ http://fellowship-hall.com/ On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Matt Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my sample of 12,000 spam comments Akismet has missed less than 10. As > far as I can tell running another spam filter could only lead to false > positives. > > > > Gene Steinberg wrote: > >> >> On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:41 PM, Rick Beckman wrote: >> >> Running both WP-SpamFree & Akismet isn't a waste; if anything, it's smart >>> or >>> at least smarter. Spam free blocks a lot of spam, but if it comes from a >>> human, it's pretty ineffective. In that event, Akismet is there to catch >>> what gets through. >>> >>> -- >>> Rick Beckman >>> http://rickbeckman.org/ >>> http://fellowship-hall.com/ >>> >> >> >> What about the reverse? >> >> What is Akismet missing? >> >> Peace, >> Gene >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-testers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >> > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
