Blog Spammers [UPDATED]

When I first started blogging, I realized very quickly that I could not run a blog that had no filtering process for the comments. Back then, there was some Pat-Lykos-supporting-jackass named Kimberly Ann White that kept attempting to post Kelly Siegler's home address on my blog and Mark Bennett's blog. Over the years, there have been pros and cons to moderating comments. I try to post everything that people write in as long as it isn't personal and it isn't flat-out lying. One of the other things that I don't publish is blatant spamming. Not a day goes by when I don't get some attempt to publish a comment on the blog that reads like it was written by a graduate of Don Hooper's School of Spelling & Grammar. For example: Usually, the spamming author will have a link back to an attorney or bail bond company that is nowhere near the Houston area. The attorney web sites will generally be some sort of mass marketing "DWI lawyer" from C