[wp-hackers] Spam link in 2.1 emails

Scot Hacker shacker at birdhouse.org
Thu Feb 1 14:29:20 GMT 2007


On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:00 AM, wp-hackers-request at lists.automattic.com  
wrote:

> From: "Brian Layman" <Brian at TheCodeCave.com>
>
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:
>> Except... I'm finding that it doesn't always appear. I've had
>> three spams get through Akismet today with no "Spam" link in the
>> emails. Anyone else seeing this? I'm baffled.
>
> Do you have a "subscribe to comments" feature?  Sometimes people  
> reply via
> email to those comments and they look like comments in your blog.   
> It is
> easy to confuse those emails with real comments.
>
> Was there a "To delete this comment" link?

Ah... I bet you're right. That's got to be it. Just got a few more  
without despam links, and they are indeed nearly impossible to  
distinguish from regular comments. Thanks.

Scot




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