To those of you who were unfortunate enough to receive one of the millions of emails "I" sent out last night ... yeah, sorry about that. As you might have guessed, I am not interested in selling you replica watches, Russian brides, various sexual enhancing products, cut-price versions of popular software or crediting you with my late-husband-who-just-so-happened-to-be-the-president-of-Nigeria's secret millions (sorry). Despite having an SPF record on my server, some spammer thought they would send a load of emails in my name and email address (but not from my server - the SPF should have blocked anything that doesn't come from my server but it didn't. Ho hum), with the result that I am now blocked from writing to many of the major email providers. Blah. Thanks a lot, spammers. *Grumble*

Spammers are silly. We already knew this (why do they send females ads for penis enlargements?!) but the proof was certainly sealed for me sometime last week when my inbox looked a bit like this:

Honestly... If you're going to have a sale, at least decide what percentage you're going to sell at. :P

I'm not sure if anyone else has done this or not, but since my Guestblock started getting ridiculously spammed yesterday (I've only had it about 2 weeks!), I decided to do something about it. The built-in spam protection wasn't working, and blocking IP addresses is about as useful as telling those spammers how naughty they are for leaving their messages all over your site. Tut.

Sooo. After successfully implementing Akismet into my CMS a while ago, I wondered whether I'd be able to do the same for Guestblock (the main site is kind of dead right now). Lo and behold, I have successfully done it.

If anyone is interested in the modification for their guestblocks, let me know. Please note that in order to use the Akismet anti-spam system you must have an account at Wordpress.com.

Woo!