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I have been getting a few of these type of e-mails. End user beware. It is a scam. Do not open. Do not follow the instructions. For more information go here.

A bloggers battle with SPAM is on-going. Recently, I had a baragge of comment spam slipping through my filters. I decide it was time to try a few more plugins. I tried TCode and CCode. So far the result is perfect.

Jack Vinson who has a great blog posted a comment to my blog on comment spam. Dr. Vinson wrote;

Lumpy- The name change thing is a good start. I wouldn't mind more details on what you did to rearrange the order in the templates.

I assume with the plug-ins you will look into MT-Blacklist and the new SpamLookup. I've been using MTB for a while, and it seems to catch the majority of the garbage that is thrown my way by the robots. It's statistics on my site say that 9700 things have been blocked, and 300 have been moderated since earlier this year. Of those 300, most have been spam as well. So it isn't perfect.

SpamLookup is newer, and people have been saying good things about it.

(Lumpy converted his URLs to hyperlinks)

I sent him a hasty reply and informed him that I would write more on it soon. Thus today's blog. First more detail on what I initially did to my comment template and index template to deal with this issue.

Seems like "quick draw McLumpy" is hoppin' about minus a toe. In other words, I think I just shot myself in the foot.

I have been busy this whole year making sure I live up to at least one of my 12 resolutions, which was to write daily. (I did not promise to "post" daily.) I made this resolution for a number of reasons. One of which was the fact that I am well aware that frequent postings make a blog site work. Who wants to read the same old postings.

As a result, traffic to this site is up, I am getting more comments and e-mail, and Google adSense is even generating a miniscule revenue. This is all good. The down side is that lumpy's corner has become a pretty decent spam magnet. This was quite a problem for me and I spent a good deal of time dealing with it and writting about it.

I did manage to defeat the spam. At first, I did so by breaking things. Over the course of a few days of self education, I managed to beat it in a more constructive manner. More specifically, using MTblacklist and no-follow plugins. (Both of which are the subject of an upcoming blog on comment spam.)