When I came in this morning, there were 37 spam comments awaiting moderation. Yesterday, the number was pretty much the same. In a matter of 1 hour (when I was out for a meeting), spammers attacked 10 times on 10 different blog posts of mine.

Of course, you don’t get to see any of it because all those spam comments get moderated and nuked by me

I tried to add a list of banned words. The list is growing. First, all spams were about Casinos. I banned that word, and then it spam relating to insurance started appearing. This morning it was the most popular of all spam words - Viagra. Looks like the spammers have a thing for Viagra. Many of you Yahoo mail users would know.

Since these words have been banned, there is a new kind of spam word appearing (even as I write this I deleted two comments). The new word is Lindt… I now have a fine collection of banned words:

There was a time when my inbox was so full of sex related spam, that if my girl friend ever saw it, she would have surely asked me to get tested for all possible STDs. Not to mention that she may have suspected me to have artificially enhanced my you-know-what.