As Matt recently posted, WordPress can handle comment spam. I currently have moderation turned on, mostly because I don’t get a lot of comments and I’m in front of my computer all the time. What I really like is the fact that I just got an email showing me the markup of the comment. That comment message had several links in it, including one to do a whois look-up on the IP address, one to accept and another to delete the comment. All from one email. I’m going to install one of the nifty comment plug-ins from the WordPress wiki shortly which should help reduce the already low amount of administration I do. We now return to our normal blog posts.