The BaseContactForm in contact/forms.py has a custom clean_body() method that checks the message against the anti-spam service akismet. The docstring on that method seems to indicate that this method was copy/pasted from an old version of django-contact-form because the functionality was removed at some point.
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BaseContactFormincontact/forms.pyhas a customclean_body()method that checks the message against the anti-spam service akismet. The docstring on that method seems to indicate that this method was copy/pasted from an old version of django-contact-form because the functionality was removed at some point.However, it seems the functionality is builtin to the current version of django-contact-form: https://django-contact-form.readthedocs.io/en/latest/forms.html#django_contact_form.forms.AkismetContactForm
So we should be able to remove and simplify our code by using it.