A couple of months ago I started to talk about requiring people to sign in to comment on my blog. I'm not about to require you to register on my site, but there is typekey. The ability to log into typekey is a common feature among blogs, so it's not a huge stretch to require it and it will hopefully put either slow down or stop the comment spam I've been getting. Maintaining the spam lookups list is just too time consuming for me. As I mentioned, I may set up open id logins so livejournal and open id users can comment as well.

A nice side effect is that permalinks are loading a little faster now. Handy.