This morning when I came into the office there were 50 emails in my inbox, which is about 38 more than normal. What caused the increase? Comment spam on my blog. It's getting worse. It's out of control and there's no way for me to stop it, which is fucking annoying.

These new batch of comments, which are coming at rate of about 1 every 5 minutes this mornning are obviously computer generated. They all have email addresses like

medpqrs@adf3408dee3cebb3da27a1c0dc309b6a6.com

What are you supposed to do with that?

I can stop it from getting on my site, which is good, but to do so I have to keep this setup where I have to approve every comment (including my own) that goes on the site, which kills some of the spontaneous interactivity of blogging, but I have no choice. Meanwhile, for every "spomment" that comes in, I have an email to delete and an unapproved comment to blast into bits. It's becoming a daily ritual, again, fucking annoying.

I've been trying to get MT-Blacklist up and running but to no avail. It requires some plug-in to be placed on the server and since my blog has been piggybacking on a friend of a friend's server from the days when I set it up in Samoa. It's definitely time to get my own host. Anyone have any recommendations?

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It really beggars the question, who are they trying to target? If there is a single blogger out there who would ever click on a link from a comment spam let alone spend any money there, I want to know who he is. I also want to know where he is, so I can hunt him down and strangle him.