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Author: M.Prince (2 May 07 10:14pm)
Disabling or enabling Akismet won't affect QuickLink catching the comment spam. Again, one of two things is likely happening:
1. The comment spammers targeting you are not targeting forms in general, but looking for some specific pattern. Most likely, they are looking for the default names of the comment form pages in popular blogging software. It could also be that they are looking for a particular format to the forms, which the honey pots may not follow. It could also be that there is one robot that runs around finding forms and a second that then fills them out at regular intervals. If that's the case, it could be you'll continue to get posts to your site's main comment form, but you won't get posts to your honey pot until after the form-finding bot comes around again.
If you're feeling a bit sleuthy, you could look at your logs and see if the comment spammer's IP ONLY hit your comment page, or if it hit a bunch of pages on your site. If it's the latter then the most likely explanation for why the comment spammer isn't showing up in your reports is........
2. I am not 100% certain that QuickLinks are currently reporting all the comment spammers they catch. I know they are reporting harvesters. I have sent an email to one of our engineers in charge of the QuickLink reporting to figure out one way or the other for sure. It could be that you are catching the comment spammers and we're just not reporting the catch. When I get an answer -- which I expect in the next 24 hours -- I will post it here.
Again, to be clear on one very important point, Akismet will not adversely affect the operation of any traps on your site. I strongly encourage you to use Akismet, or other anti-comment spam services, in conjunction with Project Honey Pot's traps and services.
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