Someone using rotating Netherlands-based IP numbers has been deluging this site with spam comments. We’re talking thousands of them.

I’ve cut off commenting privileges from an entire country as a result. I wish there was another way to address the issue.

If any actual real living Dutch readers are moved to comment here you’re welcome to do so, but you’ll have to indulge in a bit of subterfuge yourself by using a proxy service such as anonymouse.org. My apologies for the inconvenience.

Incidentally, the fact that none — not a single one! — of these thousands of spam comments have gotten through to the live site is a testament to how well the Akismet service works. I’m using the ExpressionEngine plugin for the service, but you can use it with Wordpress and a whole lot of other platforms as well. I cannot recommend Akismet highly enough.

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   AnneTanne 2010 02 15 at 2:32:41 pm

   It seems that Akismet didn’t recognize the previous comment as spam ;-)!

   (I didn’t like Akismet: it is sorting spam-comments chronologically, which means you have to go through all of them, to be sure no false positives are withhold. I use Defensio, that sorts comments according to ‘spamminess’, and I have learned that I only have to look to those with a spamminess < 60% to be sure no false positives are in there…)