Over the Christmas period I was attacked by a huge number if comment spammers linking to fake BlogSpot blogs - ocassionally over a hundred posts a day. Gits.

The number of different URLs leading to these fake blogs was large enough that I took the uncomfortable decision to block URLs containing 'blogspot' from comments altogether. So, sorry to any blogspot users who find themselves unable to leave thier URLs when commenting here - that means you especially, Mark and Katherine - but until blogspot sort their game out and get rid of the spammers, that's the way it has to be. :-(