I'm Convinced
While surfing the blogosphere a while back, I encountered a blog that had just been hammered by a comment spammer. He had 500 or so spam comments to remove from his blog. He tipped me off to a Movable Type plug-in called MT-Blacklist. I installed it without problem. I have to tell you, I'm now a believer. MT-Blacklist has successfully blocked comment spam including an 89 comment barrage Saturday night. As with other kinds of virus software, you have to update the spam definitions occasionally but it seems to be working. Not one spam comment has gotten through since I installed it.
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I installed this about a month ago and it's great. I recommend it to everyone.
I believe Six Apart is incorporating MT Blacklist into version 3.0 that they are getting ready to alpha test.
I installed a different plugin -- one written by the same guy that does the anti-spam code plugin I installed. For me, the anti-spam code seems to be working fine.
All this said, last night I got two spam comments. The last couple of days I've gotten two or three strange, cryptic, personalized comments that are linked randomly to various websites.
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