FYI, I started getting comment-spammed out the wazzu last week — several hundred a day, and some of them started slipping past my spam filters (HashCash and Akismet.) Apparently I need to load up the armor a bit more, so until then, I turned moderation ‘on’for all comments so that these pesky spammers don’t get through.
If you have any suggestions on other WordPress spam filters, please let me know!
Cheers,
Erik
Some guy from a hosting company just called the administrative contact phone number I listed on a new domain registration I did using the Yahoo Small Business domains service last week. I don’t normally use Yahoo’s registration service, but I thought I’d give it a try since the price is pretty good ($10/year) and they give you full control over DNS records (as they should) so you don’t have to actually host it with them. Occasionally I have a bad habit of registering domain names that I think would make good email addresses, but I’ve never actually had a tele-marketer try to sell me hosting services before (I guess they didn’t actually ping the domain to see that it was running.) Hopefully this isn’t a trend for Yahoo-registered domains.