This morning my wife had a concerned look on her face. “Should I be concerned?”
“About what?” I replied.
“That list of websites by the computer.”
I thought a moment. Lightbulb goes off over my head. “Those are sites I had to blacklist from the blog. I get an email for each comment, I write down the URLs I need to ban, and then I use Blacklist to do it.”
“Debt consolidation, online gambling, something about flirting – you can see why I was curious.”
“Yep.” I’m just glad I didn’t have any nekkid wimen or male potency comment spammers recently.
I’m amazed how much comment spam I get here at a small potatoes site. I didn’t get any when I was running Greymatter, but after my switch to Moveable Type it started. At first I used to ban IP addresses, but I noticed pretty quickly that spammers were changing their addresses the way a secure radio frequency hops. Thankfully Jay Allen wrote Blacklist for MT. While I still get comment spam, I don’t get it from the same place twice. Of course, the real solution is the death penalty for spam – email or comment, but I don’t think that will ever pass.
