___/ On Thu 25 May 2006 22:34:41 BST, [ Brian Layman ] wrote : \___
> My wife's blog has blocked 40,000 spams, which I suspect is probably pretty
> low compared to most of you. If I take out my .htaccess blocking stuff,
> that spam rate ramps up very quickly. I suspect a majority of these spams
> were poker related and given the number of WP blogs out there, that must add
> up.
Seems like the .htaccess method, which I first read about in Dvorak <
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2904 >, is still rather successful. Once
popularised, however, it can be fooled (just like my CAPTCHA which got
hacked, allowing a flow of 200+ spam in the past 24 hours alone).