I've recently started to add single words to my blacklist which has blocked a lot of spam that would have got through otherwise. I just saw a post from Jay Allen about this as well, I think this will be the way forward in combination with blocking domains and using regular expressions.
I'm still to upgrade to MT v3 and MT-BL v2 but in the mean time and even after the upgrades, I think adding certain words will make spam a lot easier to block. For example, I have in the past few months been getting a lot of spam with "texas" & "holdem" in the contents of the comments. Since there were so many different domains getting through, some with the words in the domain and some not, it made more sense to block words such as "holdem".
That solved that issue straight away. There have been more instances as well. Looking back through the activity log I can see plenty of attempts using certain words such as "mortgages" and since the chance of this word being used in a genuine comment is far less than spam ones it makes sense to block the word. I have found that this approach is working pretty well. Of course, any blocked words that might want to be used by genuine users can still be posted in a modified form.
Now, why didn't we start doing this earlier?
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