Comment spam continuing - sigh

I'm getting something on the order of a couple hundred spam comments a day now.

When I tried to install MT-Blacklist it blew up on me, so I've got to go back and figure out what went wrong, which I haven't had time to do yet.

So in the meantime, I'm moderating all comments and deleting most of them. Hopefully I'm not deleting real comments as I go, but if you post a comment and it doesn't show up on the blog within a couple of days you might try again (and I apologize!).

Shelley notes the same problem, and wonders if she finds a solution if she'll be crowned Queen For a Day. Heck, Shelley - if you solve this problem I think you ought to be nominated for a Nobel Prize!