Spam, spam, spam, spam...

The past couple of days, I've been inundated with trackback spam attempts. MT-Blacklist has been blocking most of them (and there have been thousands), but yesterday, about 10 or 15 would slip through every couple of hours. I would add the URL to the blacklist and then they would be back with another URL. So in addition to MT-Blacklist, I have installed Brad Choate's new MT plugin SpamLookup, which is spoken very highly of by Jay Allen (the developer of MT-Blacklist). So far, it has been working wonderfully, and I haven't had any trackback spam slip through even though the spammers have tried numerous new URLs. If you are an MT user, I highly recommend SpamLookup. It only works with MT 3.1 or higher, but with the increasing spam problem, you really ought to upgrade anyway. (The latest MT can still be downloaded for free...you just can't have more than one author and more than three weblogs.)