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In my quest to Continue to block blog spam, a recent attack of spam against my blog has me thinking again of putting some sort of captcha or filtering on top of the Akismet that I am already running.

What appears to be Russian comment spam goes right through my Akismet and is auto approved. I am going to try and set my blog to only automatically allow comments if the commentor has already been previously approved.

Akismet is great for comments with links or poorly spelled words, but is weak against wasteful comments with four or five generic words that have nothing to do with the post topic at all.

I am going to continue my quest to find more efficient comment plug-ins, as I spend too much time logging in to delete the spam ones which penetrate my current methods to blog comments.

-Dragon Blogger

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