plugin[1]Due to the recent spam attack, I decided to activate the Akismet spam-blocking plugin for this blog.  It’s something that comes built in to this distribution, but in order to use it you need a WordPress API key, which requires registration with wordpress.com.

So I now have a WordPress account, but since I host my own blog, the only thing it gets me is the short string of digits required to turn on the spam-filtering plugin.

So far I haven’t gotten hit with any more spam, so I’m not sure how it’s working yet.  I’ll update if I’m hit in the future…