A few moments ago, I received a comment notifcation for a post I made a couple of years ago (which must rank well in Google for it to be noticed today). The comment turned out to be spam for An HDTV Reminder. I get hundreds of spam comments every day. In fact, my installation of WordPress claims: “Akismet has caught 227,338 spam for you since you first installed it.” Yikes!

This one, however, definitely slipped through (emphasized in red):

Author : Diana (IP: 217.17.88.78 , clients-217-17-88-78.mikrovisata.net)
E-mail : servemail@8080mail.info
URI : http://www.hdtv.***************.info/
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=217.17.88.78
Comment: Please visit my site, click my ads and buy my crap

Forget about claiming that .INFO domains are registered for nothing other than spam sites – this is probably the one of the funniest pieces of blog spam I’ve ever recieved! I almost approved it, based on the hearty guffaw it elicited.