Akismet

Spam is growing. From 0 to 1,000,000: 70 days From 1,000,000 to 100,000,000: 190 days 100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000: 257 days 1 billion to 2 billion: 108 days It’s funny how fast that last billion went. To celebrate we made a new chart showing total spam blocked over time.

Scott Hemmeter wrote in to tell us that many web forms across the web feed into Salesforce.com so people can track the responses and such from them. Like any other form on the web these get spammed to death. Scott has cooked up a solution, combining Akismet and Salesforce to combat spam: Back in January, [...]