So it’s been 24 hours and I haven’t gotten a single comment spam.
Amazing.
I hope this lasts.
Some quick tips for peeps from what I’ve gotten figured out to date:
MT Folks:
Use MT Blacklist and check out the Spam Clearning House and add it to your MT every once in a while. Works well for me for maintaining archives of my MT blog.
This little nugget worked wonders.
texas[-_.]*hold[-_.]*em[w-_.]*.[a-z]{2,} as a recent addition to the MT Blacklist.
For WP folks:
a) Have Matt for a friend.
b) Stopgap Extreme has worked marvelously so far.
So far so good.
Cross fingers and updates will be posted.