As you may remember, in the end of the last month I decided to give TypePad AntiSpam a try. There's a Drupal module which supports, in addition to a couple of other antispam services, TypePad AntiSpam. TypePad's version is free for all kinds of use, so in my current personal economy it was the best option. Besides it's Open Source, which I just like.

So far the TypePad AntiSpam has proved to work. Yes, there has been a couple of false positives, but so far no spam has leaked through. And the system learns each time a false positive is reported as ham or a comment is reported as spam.

The Drupal module is pretty easy to configure and the only thing you need is a TypePad account (free) and then fetch the API Key. The same API Key seems to work on multiple sites too, as I use it on two blogs. Unfortunately both my blogs get quite a little traffic and comments, so I cannot say how this works on more popular sites. If you happen to know more about this, please tell.

The TypePad AntiSpam is included to TypePad blogs and there are plugins for several different platforms, including WordPress, Joomla, Expression Engine and Movable Type. So if you are looking for a new spam filtering service for your blog or just want to try something else than Akismet for a change, I recommend to check this one out.

The image above is for tero who asked previously where the cassette picture has gone.