Many ISPs, including mine, are having major problems with comment spam straining their servers. I can report that two simple fixes have blocked a HUGE fraction of my MT 2.6x comment spam: closed comments on all posts more than a month old, using the close comments plugin, and I rewrote my comment templates to require users to preview comments once before posting. Combined with my usual MT-Blackllist list, the results are dramatic. Not 100% blockage, but at least 97% of the stuff that used to get through isn't. And much of what remains is weird spam — links to non-existent web sites … which I presume are being groomed for sale once they get high googleranks. (And lots of these are in the .de TLD for some odd reason.)
Recent Bluessky Posts- How lawyers help in the transnational effort to fight climate change: Caroline M. Bradley, Sharing Law: Climate Finance Contracting, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... August 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Native Peoples Law: Bethany Berger, Native Citizenship through a Different Lens, JOTWELL (August 4, 2026) (reviewing Lila Teeters Knolle, Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota, 44 J. Am. Ethnic History 44 (2025)), lex.jotwell.com/native-citiz.... August 4, 2026 Jotwell
- Gotta keep up with the times.... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Heck of a lot of truth in this cartoon illustrating new-to-me Brandolini’s law en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol... (via @garymarcus.bsky.social in garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-critic...). Although TBH it sounds like something @mnemonic.bsky.social would have said... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Yes indeed, cf. Identity Cards and Identity Romanticism — ssrn.com/abstract=130... and The Uneasy Case for National ID Cards as a Means to Enhance Privacy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
One other thing to consider: rename your comments script to mt-comment.cgi. You have to make some changes in a few forms, but spammers looking for “mt-comments.cgi” won’t find it.