In order to combat all the spam comments as well as fake trackbacks from countless porn and mortgage Adsense blogs I’ve decided to go back and use the Bad Behavior plugin. My first go around wasn’t entirely successful as it blocks some 50% of my meager readership–are they all really coming from porn and mortgage Adsense blogs? So rather than keep cleaning out the crap from the Akismet net and trying to massage my Awstats into something more closely approximating actual readership I’ve re-enabled the plugin. This time around though I’m making use of the white list, having tracked down the IP addresses of those people who were blocked last go around. Hopefully this will give me some peace of mind.