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Big Akismet Spam Trouble

Akismet is a Spam Plugin for WordPress and it is giving me great trouble the last two days. I have the problem using the 1.1 and 1.2 version of the Plugin.

All comments are being marked as Spam so regulars and newcomers alike are getting caught in a false Akismet Spam Trap! Please keep posting your fine comments and I will clear them for publication as soon as I can –¦
Yesterday and today I asked for help on the Akismet website and this morning I even posted a cry for help on the Akismet blog.

I will let you know if I hear any news of a resolution from them.
I have even gone as far as completely deleting Akismet from my server but still, somehow, Akismet remains active and snaring every single comment and the only way to see those comments is to re-upload Akismet and re-enable the Plugin and there the comments somehow sit marked as Spam.
I have searched my .htaccess file for Akismet phantoms but did not find any lingering settings or calls.
If you are a WordPress Guru — where and how is Akismet staying active on my blog and blocking all comments even when it is deactivated and completely deleted from my server?

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Contextual Related Posts Added

I just added the Contextual Related Posts Plugin to your favorite Urban Semiotic blog. Now when you click on a post title you can see a list of other related posts from the past down near the comments box. Fantoostic! This gives new life to forgotten thoughts and brings them up out of history to reshape the present.

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All The Answers You Will Ever Need

http://faq.wordpress.com/

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Blogger vs. WordPress

Here’s a great article by jayajha for those wondering about the comparison between Blogger and WordPress.com:
http://jayajha.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/bloggercom-vs-wordpresscom/

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Try This if You Dare

If you want to help me test WordPress.com I would like you to try to add the following link to your Blogroll via the LINKS menu in your WordPress.com admin view:

http://boles.com

Please add that link just as it appears. Do not add “www” to the front of “boles.com” and then let me know if it appears in your Blogroll and if you can then edit or delete it from your LINKS Admin view.

Thanks!

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Pick a Header Color, Any Color!

Do you like how my “David W. Boles’ WordPress Blog” header looks?

You can have it, too!

Go into your PRESENTATION menu on WordPress.com and then choose the “WordPress Default 1.5” theme and then once that theme is active you choose “Current Theme Options” while still in PRESENTATION view and there you can do yer a’ pickin’!

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Permalinks Death Penalty

Never change your Blog permalinks!
I learned that lesson the hard way.
If you have no idea what I am talking about that is great news.
Stop reading now!
Click the Back button on your browser and read something else!
(A five second pause as the Back button is clicked…)
Okay, then. 

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