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Akismet Works For Me

I wanted to follow up on my previous post about dealing with blog spam.
I installed Akismet and it has worked flawlessly. It has caught dozens of blog spam posts so far. I have had no false positives and no false negatives yet (i.e. it has correctly identified every comment). The only downside is that for [...]

How Do You Deal With Blog Spam?

I assume that many of my readers are technical people and as such are likely to be bloggers themselves, so I post the question to you: How do you deal with blog spam?
I’m currently getting on the order of 30-40 blog spam posts a day. While WordPress does a good job of catching them, and [...]