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Over on wondergeeks.net they list the six most recent comments made on aggregated websites. It’s how I keep up-to-date with websites I’ve commented on, instead of subscribing to comment feeds. It’s easy to do because there are really only a handful of blogs I comment on, and they’re all on wondergeeks (except very occasionally for Paul and Alasdair). New comments are easy to see at a glance, so I don’t have to engage my brain in order to figure out what’s going on.

Now various people on wondergeeks (Geof and John, in particular) have written a few posts about their spam-fighting efforts. I didn’t pay much attention because I hadn’t received any comment spam up until a few weeks ago when Alice saw six or seven of my entries had been spammed. That night I went and installed Spam Karma to take care of things, as Geof seemed to have had success with it. Within a week I got five or six comment spam attempts blocked, and all was good.

Then I ignored it, as I seemed to be spam-free. I had configured Spam Karma to mail me a digest whenever ten spam comments came along, but I never received any emails. Over the next couple of weeks I got a few emails saying legitimate comments were posted, but nothing about spam-fighting efforts. I saw that Heather and Andy were getting attacked nearly every day, and John had a few trickle through his defenses, but I wasn’t getting anything.

I was feeling left out. Maybe I’m not important enough to spam.

Then I decided to check the actual Spam Karma logs and bingo, there they were! Spam! Lots of spam! As of right now Spam Karma has deleted 183 spam comments. I guess I am important enough after all, and I guess Spam Karma can’t email me for whatever reason.

Minor bug aside, Spam Karma kicks ass.