After having this blog up for a month or two it’s been around long enough for bots to locate the comment sections.  When I get legitimate comments I get a notification on my phone, so it’s been pretty noisy with spam emails.  Funny thing that while watching the President on TV being spammed during a town hall by some wing nut I happened to get three in a row.  It’s interesting the similarity of the tactics of spammers and the ultra-right extremists.  BTW – Did you know that the President is a Kenyan and needs your help in depositing $1billion into your bank account?

I noticed that Akismet, one of WordPress’ default plugins was designed to control spam.  Fully setting it up involved signing up for a wordpress account and copy and pasting in the API identifier that is associated with my account.  Pretty easy.  Since last night it’s already classified about 10 bogus comments and saved me from being bothered.  Well worth the 20 seconds of setup time.

Thanks Akismet and WordPress devs!