mikal@daedalus:~/blog-comments$ find . -type f -name "*.yes" | wc -l 664 mikal@daedalus:~/blog-comments$ find . -type f -name "*.no" | wc -l 18361 mikal@daedalus:~/blog-comments$ find . -type f -name "*.blocked" | wc -l 32111 mikal@daedalus:~/blog-comments$ find . -type f -name "*.badword" | wc -l 5007 mikal@daedalus:~/blog-comments$ du -sh 506M .
664 real comments on this site, 18361 I manually said no to, 32111 were blocked based on originating IP, and 5007 contained a bad word. Andrew currently donates 506 mb of disk to hosting just comments. That seems excessive to me. I'll take the time to cleanup the disk usage in the next couple of days.
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Peter
That's why I gave up on comments on my Blosxom website: the spam was just uncontrollable. I always wanted to implement captcha, but I'm not enough of a scripter to write something myself.