How I hate spam

The incidence of comment span seems to be on the rise. I get so few comments, that am very happy to get notification that a comment has been scribbled on my web page. But happiness gives rise to disappointment, when I discover someone hawking prescription drugs or pr0n. Everyday lately, I have to delete 10-20 spam comments. While it's very easy work to delete the spammy comments with the MT-Blacklist plug-in, it's still an annoyance. I think I'll have to start turning off comments for old entries as a stop gap measure.

Additionally, I notice comments were posting e-mail addresses if no web page was listed. I turned this off and rebuilt all comments. Sorry if this caused any spam for anyone. Feel free to post without fear now.