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As y’all have no doubt noticed, there has been a bit of spam making it through iPandora’s Akismet filters this last week.
I’ve been deleting them as I see them, but they keep coming. A few more each day.
What do y’all use to block spam on your blogs?

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Neil gets around. A lot.
There have been at least two cases this week where I’ve found some new blog or something outside my regular reading and there in the comments was Neil, arguing with lucidity and alacrity for truth in whichever topic was being discussed.
Truly an amazing man… being from the greatest state in America [...]

All gems are not found in comments around the blogosphere.
Here’s one I found by Gina Dalfonzo on The Point:
“…I thought the goal of schools was to teach kids lessons that would help them in life, not lessons that mom and dad would have to undo in order to give the kids any hope of breaking [...]

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Perusing my spam lists today I found one link from a Splog (spam blog) which kinda tickled my funny bone. This particular splog gives a “personal touch” by estimating or parsing the name of the original author, giving a few chosen adjectives of description and following with an excerpt from the scraped article (usually found [...]

Frank and Ernest, December 14th, 2007
Blogging turns 10 years old today. An article in Wired magazine describes what Jorn Barger considered to be the true or original purpose of blogging and includes ten tips he has for new bloggers. He coined the term “blog” to describe
I think #2 is especially good (except the “posted elsewhere” [...]