Other than Akismet and Spam Karma 2 (SK2) , WordPress bloggers now have another reason to cheer up with the new anti spam plugin from Six Apart

If your current anti spam is not working as what you’ve expected, why not give Typepad Antispam a try. It is now available for WordPress blogs and the current version 1.02 released recently is compatible with WordPress up to version 2.5

The installation process and activation which require API key, are very much similar with Akismet. It is not surprising, since the TypePad AntiSpam plugin for WordPress is derived from WP-Akismet by Matt Mullenweg. It is so similar even the ‘Caught Spam’ page has similar sentence and is differentiated only by plugin name (perhaps this is one of the T&C agreed between them).

I have Akismet and Typepad Anti Spam running on parallel for the last few days, and both of them managed to catch the same number of spams (and similar spams). The result is expected since it has similar design, but hope to see more from Typepad Anti Spam in future.

The initial run is considerably good, but the biggest advantage of Typepad over Akismet is, it is free for commercial and personal usage. I bet more commercial sites and prominent bloggers will turn to Typepad Anti Spam, after if it is proven effective later on.

“Akismet has caught 49,750 spam for you since you first installed it”

This is the number of spam comments/trackbacks/linkbacks that I’ve received over the last 13months. It translates to 125 daily (13 months=395 days). Without them, it is definitely a nightmare to bloggers. Thank you so much to Akismet for your service. Typepad Anti Spam, welcome aboard!