Here’s something worth sharing: I get a lot of comments on this blog. Well, not a lot really, but probably on the order of a hundred every week or so. All of them are spam. And they all have one really obvious thing in common: they’re all written in HTML. So they all start with <p>, which makes them really easy to identify. Now there’s something to put in my spam filter, whenever I get around to making a decent one.

EDIT: now silly me… it’s my comment posting/formatting code that adds in the <p>, not the spambots. So that tactic goes out the window. But I’m still pretty sure I’ve never actually gotten a legitimate comment. (If you know otherwise… leave a comment? ;-)