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Today this blog has hit another milestone but unfortunately nothing that makes me cheerful: the 50,000 mark of spam caught by Askimet.

I know that spammers see in blogs one of their main targets to achieve whatever it is they want to achieve, but is comment spamming the right way? Well, it seems that it is working or I would not see such waves of spam coming my way.

Fortunately Askimet catches most of it (with some still evading it and needing to be manually moderated).

What worries me the most is how many valid comments from my readers may have been caught also and forever banished to the internet waste dump. Yes, I could manually go through each and every one of them, but going through 100 to 200 daily comments trying to convince me that I need to see that latest porno or that a specific pill is exactly what I need to enlarge some parts of my body is not something that I look forward to.

If you have a blog, how bad is it for you? Are you getting this amount of daily garbage or was I singled out for comment torture?

How do you deal with comment spam on your blog?

Just a small note to mention that episode 4 of PhotoNetCast is now published. If you are subscribed to the feed either on your reader or on iTunes you probably got it already.

Also, we have an open poll there: What’s your level in photography. If you listen to the show, please take a few seconds to cast your vote. This will help us plan future episodes.

Another set of inspirational photos from great photographers.

Don’t forget to go to the photo pages and leave your comment.

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