It used to drive me nuts, a few years ago when I would get maybe two spams a day. But oddly enough, now that I get one every minute or so, it doesn't bother me anymore.

You just need a good Bayesian filter. For those who don't know, this type of program works by running statistics on the type of words that normally occur in your spam, and filtering based on those words. "Your spam" means anything you designate as spam; there's usually a separate button for "delete" and "delete spam." So the more spam you get, the better your filter becomes.

I don't know if there's something like that for filtering blog comments, but there probably will be before long.

Posted by: Jacob on March 22, 2004 12:56 PM

We just use the delete key in our house, less maintanence keeping it updated :-)

Posted by: David Mercer on March 22, 2004 3:16 PM

The folks over at Samizdata.net have a solution that you might be interested in. You have to punch in a 6 digit number each time you want to comment. It sounds a little clunky, but it seems to be getting the job done for them.

Posted by: Cody on March 22, 2004 9:19 PM






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