The bastard did the same thing to me so I contacted his ISP.

Check it out
http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/000934.php

And charmingly enough, when he did it to me, my access log shows that he came in from a Google search for things that link to you.

Phil - that's a weird one! Could someone be looking for revenge, I wonder (even when I was nice and didn't publish his name and phone numbers!!)... ? :
http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/09/06/call_your_own_spammer.html
http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/09/05/ive_caught_a_spammer.html

Yup, got the same from 64.122.16.3 .. he's banned now. A complaint has been sent to his upstream provider.

Oops, I forgot to ban the IP the last time. This time's moderately amusing "personalized" comment text was a quote of the last paragraph from two comments up; too bad it was my comment, so it sounded way too familiar to me. And again he came in from a link to you search, seconds before I got a referral from your comment on someone else's blog linking to me - are you sure you're not him?

Though since he's apparently in the same state as me, and thus a long way away from you, maybe I'm him, spamming myself to throw people off track...

Q: "are you sure you're not him?"

A: I certainly am not, but it's getting freakily coincidental at this stage...

:-/

I've gotten spam on my own site for ZipCodeWorld.com; though I didn't report them to authorities, thinking that the spammer would be clueless enough to spam other bloggers as well, I did mention them by name to shame them, heh.

One of the most effective ways of getting rid of spam is to disallow any URLs in postings, by disabling HTML in the post and removing the URL from the form (the latter is important so that spammers see at a glance they have no chance. You should also write in big letters that URLs in the post are disabled).

This won't stop spam overnight, but eventually it will quite effectively.

I hear people have been having good luck with bayesian filtering. Works great on email, so I assume it would be pretty good for comments as well.

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i wonder how much of the comment spam problem has to do with the ubiquity of movable type. i've only gotten a handful of comment spams. i've gotten more random comments on old entries that the less clueless stumble upon via searches.