My blog has been receiving a lot of spam lately, at a rate of about 50 dummy comments per day. As my current web hosting doesn’t allow me to open socket connections, a part of WordPress functionality (including Akismet, the spam checker plug-in shipped with WordPress) won’t work. I knew about the limitations and am currently looking for a hosting replacement (in fact, I guess I already found one). In the meantime, manual triaging so much spam was just becoming painful. 
