From the dashboard of this blog (which runs on the rather popular WordPress platform even as my programming friends rail against PHP at length and with great vigor):
Stop Spammer Registrations has prevented 26753 spammers from registering or leaving comments.
That is a pretty impressive number of thwarted spam messages and accounts for a site that is only read by myself and possibly the ghost of my cat, underscoring just how pervasive and persistent these naughty spammers are.
Somewhere in that number there’s a short story waiting to be told. I shall mull the possibilities.
