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Comment By: Huz
Hee, I’m glad to see that Akismet busted you.
Also, respect to your IP address. Xerox must have been an early Internet adopter!
94% of all comments are spam.
Hardly a surprising statistic when you look at the amount of trouble this meagre site has had with the spamming hordes. I wouldn’t care to guess what the ratio of spam-to-ham is like here, but I bet it’s nowhere near as good as 6% real meat.
Fortunately, the spammers that hit this site regularly are a particularly stupid bunch, and even a small sample of their automated antics was enough to build a bulletproof spam filter back in January. Recently, though, they’ve started being a bit more subtle:

These enigmatic gems pushed me over the edge and I implemented Akismet, an online service for preventing comment spam. Their home page is where I got my 94% figure.
The idea’s simple enough: when someone sees fit to hurl their erudite observations at your feet, your blog queries Akismet’s web service with the contents, and receives the thumbs-up or thumbs-down from them in reply.
So far it seems to work, with one minor drawback: all my own comments are flagged as spam. Less than ideal, but hopefully that’ll stop with time.
Victory over the bastards again – for another six months at least.
Hee, I’m glad to see that Akismet busted you.
Also, respect to your IP address. Xerox must have been an early Internet adopter!
Comment By: Mort
Monday 31st July 2006 | 13:30
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Also I discovered something interesting! With the obfuscating message technique, there’s 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways of writing ‘Viagra’ (V I A G R A, v1agra, /iagra etc)
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