Opt out of physical and electronic spam

API for keeping spam off your site

Shut down their own user management system in favor of OpenID because 75% of new accounts were spam bots

The SEO consultant they've used is astroturfing sites like Maholo, Digg and del.icio.us to post timesonlin.co.uk articles with no transparency. Fear not, Encyclopedia Baio is on the case!

Uses Bayesian statistical analysis, much like spam filtering, to find the stupid stuff; so far, YouTube seems to be their test corpus (brilliant). I love that this could be a webservice that you could plug into to reduce stupid comments.

How dare they disparage the great name of bacon!

I doubt they'll be able to stay ahead of the bastards, but this is a promising step

First Twitter spambot I've seen yet...

A pretty fascinating look inside

Hey, cool, maybe I'll use this to comparison shop ma.gnoli and del.icio.us EDIT: no way I'm using this shit, they spammed my ma.gnolia feed with a link to their own site and something called Central Desktop.

It seems like this comes up every year and, sadly, is not a hoax this time

Defeating captchas, which are pretty lame anyway

Hell hath no fury like geeks scorned. Morons.

Brilliant

Kickass looking spam killer for Movable Type

Followup on the Wordpress spamming debacle [via Daring Fireball]

Say what you will about Movable Type, the Trott's never spammed anyone to make money

When mail servers go awry - whoops!

This is one of those rare times when I wish journalists could legally chop off an interviewee's hands

Fixes a bug where spammers could use your comments.cgi to send spam - lovely

They house comment spammers and refuse to do anything about it

Not quite sure of the effect this will have on bloggers [via everyone]

Erase your comments spam before google archives your pages

Keep spam from your blog

Visit blog, leave comment, computer md5 hash, don't spam - brilliant!

A screensaver to (kind of) DDOS your friendly neighborhood spammer