You would not believe the number of people who spam comments on my weblog. It averages between 20-100 comments a day. The amazing thing is how persistent they are, yet none of it ever comes through. There’s this whole new type of comment spam that actually takes news stories and prints a link to someone’s page with a snip of the news story. “Britney gives birth to two headed gorilla….” etc are just some of the intriguing headlines I see each day. And yes, I do see it because I need to weed through and figure out what is real.
Current methods to fight comment spam utilize image recognition of some sort. I think that is silly. There are better methods out there, proven by the fact that NO spam gets through my filters. Ever.
However, to make my life a little easier and give me a little insight into what is actually happening behind the scenes (instead of relishing in the fact that I don’t need to know), I’ve started logging a lot more data about comment spam. This site is now a honeypot of sorts. Do comment spammers give a valid user agent when they spam? What is the referring page? Their ip? How are they accessing my comments page? Are they just running through random id’s of my weblog entries or is there a pattern? I’d tell you more, but obviously someone wants through my system and I’m not about to lend them the key.
Beware spammers, the world may know more about you soon because I have new data at my fingertips. Not that most of you really care. 
I guess I should test the new data being logged, just in case I messed something up…
test2
Quick a non-spammer comment test. I’m curious what you know..jc
I know you use a really old web browser
Just an observation, since you’re on the topic of comments– your comment e-mail notifier seems to send notification at odd times, like all at once. All of a sudden I’ll have like three e-mails at once that there have been comments posted here, but it isn’t like they’re brand new. Not that it bothers me or anything. Just thought you might like to know.
Death to Spammers!!
Keep up the good fight.
I agree with Jill: If you want to lessen the worlds spam, start with the spam you’re creating for all of us. Ditch that comment spammer you put on here!