Comment Spam has subsided

As I posted a few nights ago, my blog was getting hammered with comment spam. I would get about 20 ads a day, and my site isn't even remotely close to popular. So, the first step I took a few weeks ago was to set up a comment approval system, which did allow me to keep their spam from hitting the front pages of my blog entries. It also allowed me to spend time each day making sure I wasn't forgetting to approve legitimate commenters.

Now, as far as the fixes I put into place the other night. I think the only one that has made the difference so far is a change in the name of the comments.cgi file. It seems as if the comment spam people haven't figured out that parsing the comment html file for the cgi script would be a good idea, so they're looking for the default mt-comments.cgi file.

Well, I haven't received a single bit of spam since the other night, and I hope to keep it that way.