Chloe, the WordPress problem happens because spammers bypass the comment forms and insert their spam directly into the database underlying the weblog, including to post numbers for posts that haven't been written yet! When the post *is* written, the spam poofs into existence.
Security hole in the program, basically. The easiest (and I say this with some trepidation) fix is going into the database via phpmyadmin (a web-based MySQL database manager) and doing a mass comment delete from there.
I'm not sure whether the just-released WP 1.2.2 fixes this issue. It very well might.
Anyway, I don't even enable comments on my weblog and I still get spam -- referer spam. (Misspelling not of my making.) The Reffy boys are particularly good at trying to suck my bandwidth for no reason; check your server logs for adminshop or xopy.
Silly me. I guess I always thought the lust-potion was a horror device in that story. It certainly didn't HELP anything, just led to a lot of sword-down-the-bed loneliness, suspicion, and eventually death.
Romance? Um. Not so much. At least not for me.
In light of the ALA-Ashcroft scrap of a few months back, couldn't this be an ill-considered attempt to round up reference librarians, who live and die by almanacs?
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