Is it my imagination, or has blog comment spam dropped way off?<\/p>\n
I certainly haven’t received any at my sites for a couple of weeks. <\/p>\n
Weeellll … now that I look at my Activity Log, I can see two or three hits a day that ran up against MT-Blacklist. So maybe the answer is that my blacklist is pretty effective right now. Huzzah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is it my imagination, or has blog comment spam dropped way off? I certainly haven’t received any at my sites for a couple of weeks. 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