Use Akismet or TypePad AntiSpam.

Interesting idea, with, fittingly, good comments.

The LazyWeb site has been about 90% spam for a while now, so Ben Hammersly is closing it down. Shame.

The (apparently very good) Wordpress anti-spam plugin for Movable Type. I hope this means I can open up unmoderated comments on Submit Response...

"The HMPassphrase implements just one simple technique: Comment authors must enter a passphrase or their comment will not be posted."

Excellent set of .htaccess resources.

A good idea: setting a day when folk will cruise Blog*Spot flagging spam weblogs.

Google servers are full of spam aimed at Google. A tiny sample, but interesting.

Potentially a spammer's delight, but if you want to send me something of interest, tag a post to del.ici.us with for:jack

Use a styleswitcher. I'd like it if more sites with ads did this - I block (almost) all ads at the moment with a userContent.css thingy, but there are sites that I wouldn't mind giving a few clicks to.

Since my half-arsed hosts would seem to have a mismatched perl library/executable, maybe this will work.

Ban this TypeKey user (first spam comment I've seen where the commenter is signed in to Typekey).

SpamLookup uses several techniques to identify spam (SpamIdentification) and then uses user-supplied choices to either moderate or block it outright. SpamLookup also supplies a management console that allows the user to manage all of the comments and Trac

With backup being a pleasant side effect.

"If the incoming trackback does not come from the host as stated in the URL, we reject the trackback"

Build it and they will spam.

"Version 3.15 fixes a vulnerability in the mail sending packages for all Movable Type versions which allows malicious users to send email through the application to any number of arbitrary users." - that's a pretty big 'vulnerability', eh?

Ben Hammersly isn't convinced by rel="nofollow" (nice title, too).

Is this rel="nofollow" going to save us from the spammers, or horribly bugger up the interweb in ways I don't understand?

Comment spam solutions for WordPress.

Do NOT pay these comment-spamming lowlife pricks any money to find out how to set up a Podcast. Not that anyone would, obviously.