There's a new service called akismet.com which is set up to process
blog comment spam automatically, as a REST web service.
Ironically, the guy who set it up was busted in late March 2005 for
over 168,000 separate instances of search engine spam, hosted on the
site of WordPress, his popular open-source blogging engine.
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Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org