It has been about six weeks since I wrote my review of Akismet. Things had been going fine, but the last week or so has seen a large increase in the number of comment spam items that are not being caught, especially yesterday and today. I’ve asked about this via their contact form to see if this is something unique to me or if there is something going on at Akismet.
UPDATE Fri 24 Mar 2006 @ 4:30pm: I suspect the problems I’ve been having are related to Akismet database problem that was just reported. Interesting that the problem seems to involve taking too long to get a response back for free users.
March 24th, 2006 at 4:32 pm Matt
Very sorry about that.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:41 am Todd Huss
I saw the same thing. I received around 60 over the last week that weren’t caught! Normally Akismet does a great job though!
April 7th, 2006 at 10:44 pm jp
I am having the same problem. A considerable amount of time each day is being spent getting rid of mail messages that Akismet lets through.
If this keeps up, I may be going back to Spam Karma.
JP