I just got a new kind of comment SPAM, well, actually, I got it a while back, but I just checked it out to see what it really was. The thing was a trackback to one of my posts here, but the URL for where the trackback went to was no more than a rerouter [...]

Akismet helps
It usually helps to reduce the SPAM if the blogger remembers to enable Akismet. ::pounds head on desk:: Just realized that I had not enabled Akismet on this blog, so that explains the deluge of junk comments I was getting. Why had I thought that Akismet was automatically enabled when WordPress was installed? I need [...]