On my Askimet spam page for Daily Chronicles of the American Civil War blog, the message today reads, “Akismet has caught 258,378 spam for you since you first installed it.”

That’s a lot of comment spam.

I really, really hate spam of any kind.

I really, really like Askimet. I just moderated 10 spam comment that got past it — out of 4000 since the last time I checked the comment moderation page. If I had to go through each and every one, I’d have comments turned off to that blog. There is just too many.

From a discussion in the comments of a post on Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger, Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab.

Regarding copyright, Mike Goad made some good points and refuted some misguided information.

I state this as a copyright attorney. Further, my comments here relate only to copyright law in the United States.

For various reasons, a few years back, I did a lot of studying of copyright and copyright related issues — enough so that I feel I have a pretty good layman’s understanding of it. It’s more than just a bit gratifying to have a professional back up something I’ve said about it, though.