No worries, Darrin—TypePad AntiSpam is 100% free and it’s open source, so not only can anybody use it, but you could take the code and make your own antispam service too, if you wanted. Plus, it supports the Akismet API, so it works with lots of platforms; Our plugins support Movable Type and WordPress and of course it’s built in to TypePad, but there’s already talk of updating the Expression Engine plugin for Akismet to point to TypePad AntiSpam, so nobody has to pay for blocking blog spam. Sounds like we’re on exactly the path you are advocating.

Hi Anil, thanks for the update and service clarification.  I’m pleased (and honestly relieved) to see leaders in the personal publishing industry find and pursue innovative and platform-independent solutions to combat blog spam.  While such spam is a minor annoyance to blogs like mine, I can’t imagine the amount of work that would be necessary to maintain a high-traffic blog without the availability of such tools.  The effort is appreciated (at least by me )