Well, I guess security through obscurity is not the best way to go. Actually I knew this, but hadn't done anything about it.
This morning I opened my inbox to find over 600 new comments posted to my blog entries. I guess I have been found by the comment spammers. Up until this point I haven't had to worry about it, but this morning, after cleaning up all the crap comments, I installed MT-Blacklist to help at least a little bit.
I am re-enabling comments for now, but we'll see how well this does, and how long this lasts. As with any blacklist, it's only as good as the updates. If this causes more work that it's worth, I will have to look into something else.
So if I put in a bunch of html tags to reference my Blog, I will get blocked? Hmmm, shoud I put it to the test?
Doh, html tags won't work. So this preview thing is another step to prevent the comments I would believe...
Yeah, the blacklist works fairly well. At the very least, it allows you to easily remove comments that you don't want posted.
I find that I don't get hit with all of the blacklist masterlist and of late I've been getting a ton of .info domains. So much so, that I just put a generic match for any .info.