Between them, two or three individuals posted 15 blogspam to cardboard nu today, all advertising paedophile porno. I have trouble articulating my thoughts on this subject, but to have my blog co-opted in this manner left me feeling dirty and ill-used.
Free speech be damned; some things are just too wrong to be allowed to see the light of day. Words don’t exist in a vacuum.
In response to this and previous commercial comments, I have installed Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist plugin. MT-Blacklist scans incoming comments for ‘inappropriate’ regexps. In particular, it targets the URLs that spammers promote. Turns out that there are only a few hundred common blog-spammed URLs, so the problem is quite tractable.
Of course, the Red Queen principle applies, and I suspect that I will be dealing with blogspam for as long as I run a blog.