But something else happened as well: link spams started to flow in by tens per hour, while this normally was at a stable, low rate of about one a week. I think this is pure coincidence, some spammers having found a new way to massively abuse wordpress blogs. But nevertheless, it;s very annoying.

Luckily, there’s a pretty solid solution around the corner: the plugin Bad Behavior seems to catch this kind of spam very effectivel, at least for now. Let’s see how long this will stand in the spammers’ arms race.

Some links from my little research on blog spam:

• I’m Winning the Battle Against Comment Spam is already over two years old but still valuable
• What’s the best spam filter for Word Press? opinions on LinkedIn answers
• OpenID and Spam slightly unrelated but interesting discussion whether requiring OpenID is a valid strategy for preventing abusive account creation (the so called Splogs).

The OpenID post learned me about the term Club Solution (Club vs. Lojack solutions, Mark Pilgrim). Nice!

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