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After clicking that link I get
The key you entered could not be verified because a connection to akismet.com could not be established. Please check your server configuration.
The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time. Please check your server configuration.
Since I updated to the latest version of WordPress I have been getting that error.
and below that error I get another
Server Connectivity
Unable to reach any Akismet servers.
A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work correctly until this is fixed. Please contact your web host or firewall administrator and give them this information about Akismet and firewalls.
Akismet server Network Status 66.135.58.62 Obstructed 66.135.58.61 Obstructed Last checked 1 min ago.
On every one of my sights. The spam count is freaking high right now and everything is getting past akismet, ofcourse akismet’s count still says 100% accuracy.
Anyone got a work around ?
btw, my job blocks twitter and my posts send directly to twitter, soo I am not just yelling in the dark.
And of course after posting I get fatal error even though my posts do actually get to the web