Jay Allen mentions some new anti-spam plugins, and while I’m not going to run out and set them up (given that I busted the comments on a bunch of blogs real good last time I did that), all three sound pretty interesting. I would love to reimplement trackback, but until moderation is avaialable, it’s gotta wait.

The combination of preview->post->moderation on this blog has, as best I can recall, zeroed out my spam; unfortunately, it’s also killed conversation in the comments. When a post picks up a bunch of commentary, I may not get to approve the comments until the end of the day, and so the remarks overlap and do not take into account my replies.

Which is a shame. I may experimentally disable MT-B’s moderation to see if the dual-layer asbestos underwear is enough.

The thought strikes that MT-4 should really have something like a dedicated spam-fighting plugin layer or protocol so that developers like Jay and Chad (who wrote the multi-step comment submission filter and the MT-Moderate filter which does enable trackback moderation) can make their products work together with maximal handshakery.