Private Thoughts Made Public

The blog got severely comment spammed yesterday. I checked my email to find about 200 comments had been added to the blog in the space of four hours. I’ve got Jay Allen’s Movable Type Blacklist plugin installed, but even if the blacklist file is kept up-to-date some devious sods always manage to get through. Spent at least an hour tidying it all up and getting rid of the rubbish. Checked the blog activity log this morning to find that it has since blocked another hundred or so attempts to add comment spam. Hopefully I’m on top of that one, but trying to block it all is always going to be a firefighting exercise. Grrr.