There Must Be a Better Way To Deal With Comment Spam

During the past week, I've had a trickle of comment spam on my blog. Nothing that I'm overly concerned with (not yet, anyway) ... but sufficient that for the first time since I started this blog, I've been deleting certain comments. I'm mindful of the experience TypePad blog, too, like mine, and he had to spend an awful lot of time manually removing loads of such spam. Captcha, which requires you to fill in a text box from the distorted characters shown in a graphic image. Expression Engine. The only way you can deal with comment spam on a TypePad blog is after the event (this is what the TypePad Plus). Does anyone have any ideas on how to deal with comment spam in a TypePad blog from a preventative point of view, ie, that's before rather than after the event? Other than turning off commenting, that is... Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: