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I've now gotten a handful of e-mail messages and IMs from people who want to show me how they've eliminated spam from their blog, usually through some fixed set of work they performed to eliminate it.

For now.

Spam on blogs is going to be a constant battle, just like it is now in e-mail. And honestly, I have no interest in investing the time fighting it. Because the reality is: every system proposed is going to break eventually. Then someone has to go off and code up something else to stop the new wave of spam, while I'm forced to manually maintain my comments to keep them spam free.

I've also gotten encouragement not to "kill the community" on my site. I find this argument not really convincing, personally. Most of the people who read my blog have blogs of their own. I'll let the community shout at me in e-mail if I'm wrong, but be aware that the solution would probably be a registration-only Burning Board or something similar, rather than the restoration of direct comments.

So, thanks for the thoughts, but please stop sending me information on how to keep my comments spam free. Your solution works today, but it won't work tomorrow, and I'm done playing the blog spam wars.