Defensio
Well, I’ve been really frustrated with Akismet for the inability to whitelist friends with hotmail addresses. I’ve got one blog buddy who is consistently marked as spam, and no matter how many times I unmark the spam he still ends up right back in the spam folder with his next comment. I kept looking for a whitelist, but the only one available works with an older version of Akismet and hasn’t been updated in more than a year.
So I went to the Akismet website looking for information on how I could add a whitelist, and they were introducing a competitor called Defensio. I went to the Defensio website, and their advertised features are:
-Stellar Accuracy-
You’ll deal with less spam on your blog, period.
-Easier Spam Management
Managing your spambox will become dead simple.
-Personalized Filtering
Your own habits will help make the filter better over time.
-Transparency Through Statistics
Meaningful stats so that you’ll really know what’s going on.
The personalized filtering caught my attention, and I’ve been trying it out for the past two days. So far it seems to work as well as Akismet at identifying spam, and it allows me to unmark false positives.
Update: I had some problems with a false positive as you can see in the comments below, but Defensio has, indeed, “learned.” I highly recommend it. It does appear to be better than Akismet, at least for my purposes.
Thank you for the recommendation, Casey. I’ll give it a spin too I think.
My blog’s been overrun by spam the last few days, and I’m at the stage of frustration having to delete a few of them every few hours.
God bless, and Shalom!