It figures that a few days after I pi$$ and moan about comment spam, MT releases a new version of MT that has some new comment moderation features built in. Plus there is an official add on for adding another level of security. Now to enter a comment, you need to type in a security code displayed on the screen. If you misprint the code or completely ignore it, you comment gets a nagative "junk" rating and is moderated. I've had it working for a couple of days now and so far comments are still coming in but they are being moderated much more than they were before... Which is a good thing.

Another tool they released to fight the spam was a plugin that disabled trackbacks on older entries but left them active on the newer ones. Since all my trackback spam comes from entries I wrote over two years ago, this has put at complete halt to it.

Looks like I'll be here for awhile. =)