DISQUS

You tend to allude in your article that stronger trademark protection will affect open source adversely. But I do not think so. The trend toward stronger trademark protection will have a positive affect open source and the Web in the long run in my view.

I love your analysis of this ugly development. As you rightly stated “very nature of this evolution is going to make it a difficult one to track and stopâ€? because those creeps are not going to stop. They will soon find away to break through any defensive front against the nefarious activities

This is the best way I found; it stopped about 90% of my comment spam right away.

Good that Defensio is doing a good job for you. Keep us posted on how it holds out. Another alternative I found is to run a script that'll set old stories with their comments/trackback closed (there are several of these around).

This is my first post after your modification. I think the new features are cool, obviously better than the previous.