On my previous post I talked about the annoyance of spam messages. Unsolicited messages sent primarily as unintelligent and unprofessional mass-marketing efforts of questionable products and services.
Spam, whether it reaches your Email inbox or your WordPress blog, is annoying, can be irritating, and at times it may be wasting your precious time to have to manually delete all of it. So, let us discuss some well tested solutions to the spam plague and help keep it away from you.
Fighting spam messages on your WordPress blog
WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms out there. If you operate a privately hosted WordPress blog, you have the ability to add plugins which enhance the software’s functionality. Among these plugins, we find two amazing spam filters which deliver what they promise and keep the vast majority of spam messages out of sight.
Akismet
Developed by the same people behind WordPress, Akismet is an undoubted leader in the world of spam-fighters. Short for Automattic Kismet, it makes use of a web service which puts each comment under a rigorous testing process to judge whether it is spam or safe. You don’t have to do much other than sit back and relax while Akismet takes care of spam messages on your behalf.
Spam Karma
Spam Karma is one of the first plugins for WordPress to earn a place in the “spam-fighters which actually work hall of fame”. And rightfully so. An intelligent tool which is automatically trained to recognize spam messages. The most annoyances it stops the better it gets at it. And it has lots of options and customizations to work with, definitely worth checking this one out.
Helping keep your Email inbox spam free
Free web-based Email accounts today are a good way to hassle-free protect yourself from unwanted Emails, aka spam. Google’s Gmail as well as Yahoo! Mail offer you fully featured Email accounts at no cost, while they take care of keeping your inbox nice and clean.
As a general guideline though you should avoid giving out your Email address on websites where it may be seen publicly. Spam-people have bots surfing the web continuously picking up any Email address they find on a website and adding that to their spamming To: lists.
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If you use a POP Email account that you wish to have protected, one of the most popular and effective solutions out there is Spamihilator.
Spamihilator is an anti-spam filter software, available for free download and use. You can use it with many Email clients such as Oulook, Eudora, Pegasus Mail etc. It boasts a new Bayesian learning filter for training the software to easily recognize spam and block it from reaching your inbox. Check it out here.
Well, that is all from the spam-fighting front for now. I hope you find these solutions useful, and if you have any more suggestions to the issue at hand, please don’t hesitate to tell.
