Thankfully Sam Ruby is filtering spam out of his comments. I subscribe to his comments feed but was getting ready to unsubscribe after having to scroll past several spam messages while skimming my news aggregator.
I get enough spam in my inbox.
Sam is also tackling trackback spam on his weblog by verifying that there is indeed a link to his site. He is also looking at upgrading the backend to intertwingly:
However, that part will have to wait as I’m in the midst of evaluating a wholesale upgrade of the software running my weblog, and in the process evaluating Blosxom 1.2, Blojsom, PyBlosxom, and Vellum.