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There have been some Akismet network issues in the last few weeks.

After chatting to Barry of Automattic the issue was tracked down to a HTTP keep-alive issue. Basically it was taking about 30 seconds for each request to the Akismet server.

Although it seems these issues have been fixed the following workaround can be used in Bluetrait 1 without any issues.

1. Open include/akismet.class.php
2. Go to line 128. It should read: $http_request  = "POST " . $path . " HTTP/1.1\r\n";
3. Change to: $http_request  = "POST " . $path . " HTTP/1.0\r\n";
4. Save and upload

Bluetrait 2 will be using HTTP/1.0 for Akismet.