Schonhose

Today the best new anti-spam measure is finally out of beta. That is right, Defensio is finally live. This is what Carl had to say about it on the Defensio blog:

If you’re a blogger, you are likely already intimately familiar with the “spam problem”. Spammers have been waging war on the blogosphere for months now, bombarding the comments section of blogs with literally millions of spam messages per day. This creates a lot of work for blog owners, who have to wade through hundreds if not thousands of messages every week, just to make sure their comment garden remains weed-free. It’s become such a problem that many simply don’t bother anymore, preferring to let the odd legitimate comment disappear; and an increasing number of bloggers are even opting to shut down comments altogether — an unfortunate, and unnecessary, concession to the cold-hearted spammers’ cause.

We felt that the time was ripe for a better spam management solution; so we built Defensio.

Currently they support WordPress 2.1+, Umbraco and PixelPost 1.7+. So if you use WordPress, head on over to Defensio, sign up and download the plugin.

If you use Pixelpost, you have to wait a few more days. Pixelpost 1.7 is really near. If you really cannot wait: check out the Pixelpost Forums where you can download the Release Candidate for Pixelpost 1.7.