Until last week I’ve been very lucky with this blog – I managed to avoid blogspam completely. But no longer. In the last few days I’ve had seven spam comments, all advertising either pr0n or medication. This isn’t exactly a flood, and since I’ve always had moderation on they haven’t been visible to the public. But nonetheless it’s irritating. I got all excited with the “you have n comments waiting for moderation” emails, so to discover it was spammers trying to sell things that were either illegal, morally dubious or just disgusting, was disappointing to say the least.
It hasn’t reached the point where I’m willing to put in the effort to implement more complex comment filtering systems, but if they keep up at the current rate I’ll probably have to.
I use Akismet on my blog, it requires no effort and works perfectly.
It should have come with your wordpress installation, all you need is an API key from wordpress.com
I guess you won’t get this comment because of all the spam overshadowing it
You should check out http://recaptcha.net/ it is a really neat CAPTCHA tool that helps correct OCR errors for scanned in books, and the plugin takes a few seconds to set up.
Also, you should make sure blog.frith.co.za has an mx record, and wordpress@blog.frith.co.za is a valid email address, otherwise a lot of mail services (like gmail) will mark it as spam.