Right… do any other WordPress users out there (I’m looking at you, Mr Covey) know of any good ways to stop those stupid auto-spam-bots creating lots of obviously spamtastic comments on this here blog? At the moment I’m just marking them as spam as they arrive, but that gets quite boring after a while. I’m guessing that letting the ‘online pharmacies’ and ‘payday loans’ companies know that they’re hard-earned marketing dollars are doing nothing but piss me off is going to do no good at all…
Update – Mr Covey did the do, and I’ve now activated WordPress’s out-of-the-box anti-spam device, which should make me a much happier bunny. Now then, anyone have any ideas on how to get BT to listen to my complaints…? 
Here’s a link to some plugins on the WordPress site.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools
From doing a little reading, it seems that most people use a combination of Askimet and Bad Behaviour to capture spam.
I just use Askimet (you have to sign up for a free account with WordPress.com to get the Askimet API Key) and probably only get 2 spam messages that slip through the net each week across my entire blog empire.
I particularly hate the ones that say:
“I found your article on Spam, spam, bloody spam at Fretnoise.com really informative. I’ve added you to my blogroll.”
They trick you into thinking they really liked your site, except the Website link is pointing to a spam site. Buggers!
Thanks for the comment mate
Akismet is active, let’s see how it goes…
Re: BT.
Do you know Maureen Lipman?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Bellman
Sadly no.
“A hunking-great monstrosity? He gets a hunking-great monstrosity that ignores its customers’ complaints and charges extortionate fees because it knows it’s a monopoly and he says he’s failed”
Is that how the ad went? The elapsed time is making it a bit hazy now…