Automatic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a social collaboration effort to eliminate comment and trackback spam WordPress blogs. Ahlsmith’s Aspirations uses the WordPress platform and Akismet keeps spam out of the comments and trackbacks to posts on this blog.

Within days of setting-up this blog I started receiving 2 to 3 alerts a day saying that my latest post had comments or trackback requests awaiting my approval. If I accepted those comments and trackbacks, I could have opened a pharmacy. The spammers were pushing Ambien, Valtrex, Lavetra, Viagra, and more.
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