A brief history: A few years back, when I got my iBook, I looked for a free POP3 mail service, so I can check out Apple Mail, So I registered for a free account with Hotpop. It was horrible, sometimes it takes days to receive a message. After a short while, Gmail was announced, so I moved to gmail, which allows POP3 access, and some time later, I got my own POP mail with my domain, but even so, I used the hotpop account for my Gravatar account, meaning that I used that email on all my blog comments.
The Problem: Some time ago, I noticed that all my blog comments, both on my blog and other blogs, is getting marked by Akismet as spam. At first I thought my email or name got blacklisted somehow, but after some testing, any comment with a @hotpop.com email gets filtered, so it’s not me.
If it’s not my email in particular that’s blacklisted, I’m not going to put to much energy in getting it removed, so I guess I just need to start using a different email for blog comments.
- October 30, 2006
- | Category: Site Updates, WordPress
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