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I didn't want to have to resort to blacklisting IP addresses. The difficulty with blacklisting IP addresses is the dynamic nature of the internet wherein an IP can easily be re-assigned to a different host; hence you may wind up accidentally blocking someone who has done nothing wrong. But, since the writeback_akismet plugin, while slowing down the flow of comment spam, still let a lot of comment spam through, I decided to bite the bullet and blacklist by IP.
The blacklist plugin for bloxsom, I obtained here: http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/BlacklistPlugin. So far, just based on the comment spam I've received over the past 24 hours, I've built up an IP blacklist of almost two dozen entries (thank goodness that the writeback_akismet plugin logs IPs for the comments). I really hope that this works. If the flow of comment spam still doesn't stop (or at least slow down to a trickle) I may just disable writebacks altogether. We'll see...
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