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This blog has been getting between fifty and eighty spam comments a day.  In a month, I sometimes get 200 spam comments from a single source.

In disgust, I added a Captcha widget even though they annoy me when I have to use them on other sites.  These are the little text boxes that make you type four, five or six letters into.  The purpose is to prevented automated messages from getting onto the site.  The widget assumes only a real person or an alien will be able to type the correct letters.

Since I added the Captcha widget, the spam messages have dropped to less than one a week.  Talk about effective devices.  I'm now a Captcha fan.

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