Mollom Sheds Beta Tag

Mollom has finally shed the beta tag from its service. From the newsletter that I received from Dries Buytaert, he has officially announced that the "beta" label has been taken off and with the help of startup Benjamin Schrauwen, they have managed to keep the website free of spam via the first commercial product, that is Mollom.

Mollom has been tested in the market for the past 6 months; since then, the service has blocked almost 9 million spam messages across thousands of websites. The service will continue further to enhance and continue block spams on many more websites.

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"... Our first commercial product, as promised, our most basic service is still free. We make Mollom Free available for free because we think that making spam protection available to as many sites as possible is the right thing to do. While Mollom Free is a great fit for the vast majority of our install base, it is limited to 100 legitimate posts or comments it can process per day. For larger sites, our Mollom Plus service is a great solution,
providing protection against post and comment spam for about 1 euro per day. Supporting a volume of 10,000 legitimate posts per day, and backed-up by
multiple Mollom servers in data centers around the world-wide, Mollom Plus is designed for the needs of large community sites, web businesses and enterprise sites. For the largest sites -- or for customers who have many sites to protect -- we're also rolling out volume licensing. More details regarding Mollom Plus, Mollom Free, and other service plan options are
available on the Mollom pricing page and in
the Mollom FAQ..."

Personally, after using Mollom for a period of time, I highly recommend this product for your websites. Good, efficient and effective against spams!