Comment spam overload!
Ack, the new wave has been unleashed. MT-Blacklist for 3.0 can't get here soon enough.
Some spammer is sending a comment spam to just about every post I have... currently up to about 65 of them... possibly all of the entries i haven't (yet) turned off comments on. Same basic content, pretty easy to filter and remove. But MT 3.0 rebuilding is a little slow, so it's a big pain. This is what I get for not running a version of MT that has an active MT-Blacklist... and a few other promiscuous activities. I wonder what gives, though. Such rampant spamming can't really help the pagerank that much, nor can it particularly go undetected. It's more like a DoS. Same e-mail address, but pretty much all unique IP addresses.
Follow Up: Another blast came in early in the morning on July 30th. Now I guess I'm going to just go through and close comments on all old posts. What a pain. The sliding window in MT-Blacklist is going to simplify things a lot...