Building a spam word list?
Well, although most of us do run some spam-combat software to keep our comment areas clean of nasty comment spam, there is also one thing you can most certainly do to improve your real comment/spam ratio into a better one. It's called a comment blacklist, and you'll know what I'm talking about if you're using WordPress.
If you're blogging via the popular WordPress, you must have noticed that 'Options – Discussion – Comment Blacklist' thingy hiding in the settings of your blog template. Although there are a lot of really cool plugins one can use to diminish the always growing comment spam, why not use what's already there?
But, if you're as lazy as I am sometimes, you will not be happy to enter each spam word one by one, and that's where our blogger friend Ravi from Ravi's Raves lends a helping hand.
Surf to his post and copy paste the offending word list right into your WordPress cmment blackslist, and enjoy an instant spam decrease!
I do find it hard to imagine how would this spam world list would look like, we would all be relieved once things will be more concrete in this world of spam because there will be clear marks to separate spam from the rest.