You probably don't know it, but my "comments" forms at the bottom of each post get hammered by spammers. The spam routines in MT work really damned well and catch almost all of these without incident. I've seen one or two get past the filters but since I keep a pretty close tab on my "recent comments" list (primarily to, you know, promptly respond to your varied queries), they usually get identified and dumped quickly.
But just to give you an idea how bad it is, I've taken a screenshot of my MT interface with all the caught spam. It's the image at the top. For some reason, almost all of the spam in the recent past has been posted to one entry (The Boeing Factory Tour). The velocity here is around three comments a day, which would be a bunch to filter out if it didn't happen automatically.
Yeah mine gets hammered too. There's one post in particular that seems to be a spam-magnet, and I leave all spam to that post un-touched just to be funny. But otherwise blacklist catches most everything. I think I'm up to 2000 comments now, only ~500 of which are genuine.
Fr33 ce11 p0n3s! Today only. Dont pass up this amasing deal.
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Spammers just look for installs of blogs. Using a large package like MT or Drupal (etc) means you'll get more spam, because the spam engines know how to post comments there; possibly, they even know how to get around the anti-spam engines there. Some home-grown package will attract fewer; it won't be able to deal with the attention as well once it comes.
"Remember personal info?" seems to be working. I'm assuming you haven't futzed with it much since my last comment. As such... nfi what's wrong with it/me.
Fr33 ce11 p0n3s? I prefer "Freecell pwned," which is close enough.
Freecell, GAH! I Hate that Game!
Why wasnt Solitaire good enough, why did they have to make Freecell?
edit: spelling and Freecell pwns Raven