My two “main” blogs, the one you are reading, and [Geek World](http://geek.pandemonium.de/) have received 50000 spams since I first started using [Akismet](http://akismet.com/). I am usually quite happy to celebrate milestones and such, but not this time.

And it’s gotten really bad really quickly, too – one and a half years ago it was rare enough that I attempted to [report comment spam by hand](/2005/12/13/spam-spam-spam-lovely-spam/) to the ISPs of origin.