Spam-a-lamb
Spammers have really caught on to the phenomenon of posting junk-comments in Blogs. I typically wouldn't care much since the volume of junk-comments was low enough that I could clear them out on a monthly basis. I think it's only been a few weeks since I last cleared the junk folder out, and today there were a total of 3,298 junk comments being stored on my web-server. Ridiculous. The disk quota for comments is the same as my disk quota for incoming e-mail messages. I hate to think that incoming e-mails are being rejected because junk Blog comments caused me to exceed my disk quota.
So, for the time being, I've disabled all commenting-facilities on my blog. I'm in the process of looking for a good Captcha plug-in that works with MovableType. If you know of one, please e-mail me!