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My last blog ran WordPress which had a built-in comments module. Cool at first but then the spammers found it. Not fun. I think my SPAM/legitimate comment ratio was running something like 200/1.

Spam is not a problem unique to this humble website, but an epidemic upon the vast Web. Scores of spam countermeasures exist including captchas, math problems, and javascript methods all aimed at foiling the spambots from their relentless posting for performance-enhancing-get-rich-while-you-lose-weight offers.

It would be so nice if the Web could have an open conversation and not have to be constantly picking up litter and trash.

I do hope to someday enable commenting on this blog, and when I do, there just may be a solution to the spam… stay tuned!