[wp-hackers] Akismet is conspiring against me ;)

[R.J. Kaplan]

Yes I figure the content is important, but in my case, whatever I  
write gets caught. And believe me, I'm no spammer.
~Joe

On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Computer Guru wrote:

> Gah! - Hate to double-post, but here goes:
>
> You must realize that the email blacklist or domain blacklists for the
> username field are only a small part of Akismet's workings. Not  
> having the
> fortune to _be_ Matt, I can't tell you the exact recipe ;)
>
> But I can tell you that in my experience the _content_ of a message  
> is more
> important than the actual domain or email address: most spam sites  
> spring up
> overnight, and their email addresses are usually @legitdomains.com  
> - domain
> spoofing.
>
> At a guess - I'd say something about you has been _manually_  
> spanked as
> "evil" and blacklisted - that's why bringing attention to it gets  
> akismet
> "taught," but then again, I don't really know.
>
> Computer Guru
> NeoSmart Technologies
> http://neosmart.net/blog/
>
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