Some dude is going to deactivate his spam protection (Akismet) for one day, on December 15th, and the idea is actually starting to spread. What a pointless idea… I mean, everyone knows how many spam they're getting each day: Akismet as a WordPress plugin comes with a spam counter. I know I get between 100 and 300 spams every single…
For the past few days, I've received a decent amount of spam from the same machine and domain, hosted on Hostgator. Deciding that enough was enough and that I had a minute of my life to waste, I sent an email to abuse@hostgator with some details from my Akismet screen. I wasn't really expecting much… till I received a reply…
Impressive : add a single javascript line from JS-Kit and you get a full comment system without any other coding or server side stuff needed. There are even several options and settings, and the whole comment engine is Akismet enabled to make sure you get no spam. I'm not sure how convenient and easy things are when it comes to…