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General info

Akismet is a simple and powerful plugin for your blog that will stop all the incoming spam comments. It integrates nicely with various types of blog software and it's free for personal use.

Statistics

Akismet was released for the first time on october 25, 2005. Since the first installation, Akismet stoped 2,961,884,468 spam comments. Only 242,545,717 of all the comments posted were legit.

Pricing

Akismet is free for personal use with a non-commercial blog or non-profits and you don't even have to download anything if you're using Wordpress (just register to get your API key). However, people that maintain commercial blogs are required to purchase a subscription for $5/month. The Enterprise license works with blog networks and corporate blogs and costs $50/month.

Plugins

There are many plugins available for different types of platforms (Akismet was intially designed for Wordpress). 1. MT-Akismet (plugin for Movable Type)
2. Drupal Module
3. phpBB Mod
4. Blojsom blogging software
5. Bloxsom blogging software
6. Geeklog module
7. Serendiptity spam protection includes Akismet
8. Nucleus Plugin
9. b2evolution Plugin
10. Spam Karma + Akismet (WordPress plugin)
11. PunBB mod
12. Expression Engine
13. Coppermine mod
14. Akismet for MT
15. Lifetype
16. Simple Machine Forums
17. Phorum
18. tDiary (Japanese)
19. MyBulletinBoard
20. PostNuke
21. Joomla
22. EZ Publish

Communities

• Talk about Akismet on the vBulletin forums - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=118421
• Akismet official blog http://blog.akismet.com/
• Wordpress MU official forums http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/
• Akismet spam stoppers mailing list http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/spam-stopper

Further reading

• Akismet details on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akismet
• Akismet for Drupal http://drupal.org/project/akismet
• Akismet documentation http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/