I just deleted 3,952 spam comments from my blog. Boy, those things pile up if you don’t keep on top of them. There were too many to delete all at once, but I discovered a trick: in your list of comments, you can click the magnifying glass icon next to a blog topic to list only those comments for that topic. That’s generally a small enough number to delete at once (I think it can handle about a thousand in one gulp.) You can also select comments by commenter name or originating address, but considering the spam comes from thousands of different computers, and the username is different for each comment, that isn’t very helpful.

I’m looking forward to the new blog server version, which will have more anti-spam tools.