I haven’t tried James Seng’s Bayesian filter for MT yet, but it looks like a winner. Hopefully this will solve all of our problems and put to rest any fears that comment spam is unblockable.
For those not clued in to Bayesian Filtering yet, it’s an old (as in 1764 old) mathematical technique that rose to popularity as a way of dealing with spam in the last year or so. It’s now a part of most of the spam blocking tools out there, and of course Mozilla Thunderbird does it. Why should you care? Because it learns what you think is spam and deletes it for you. Not too shabby.
I haven’t installed MT-Bayesian yet, as I’ve only gotten two comment spams, and the comments around here aren’t 2 fast or 2 furious. That and I can never tell if a given comment might just be my wife giving me a very personal hint.