A quick hat-tip to Matt Mullenweg whose Akismet service has just caught it’s one millionth comment spam message.

I wrote a bit about Akismet a few months ago when it was launched. Prior to that I was one of the testers. I am delighed to say that since it left beta the spam stopping efficiency has not deteriorated from the levels that I experienced during the first tests – and the plugin’s interface has improved too. It’s also grown beyond it’s wordpress origins with the API being translated to several languages and CMS’s.

Will 2006 be a completely spam free year? Perhaps.