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Blogger Comment Spam - Deleting it

It seems over recent months that my blog gets comment spam. I imagine any bloggers out there experience the same thing and it is a bit of a pain. I have three immediate problems with this and blogger.com. 1. Blogger doesn't notify me of all comments at the time they are posted. It notifies me of some, and I have of course configured it to notify me of all comments, but it seems to miss off about 70%. So not only do I not notice the spam, I also miss a bunch of legitimate comments. Please get it together Blogger! Ajax panel configuration is nice, but only if the core functions work. 2. Blogger should/could/might try to stop this spam before it happens. I am not guessing how, but then the company that runs Blogger.com are much brighter than me, and I am sure they have a solution. 3. The interface for browsing comments and deleting many at a time simply does not exist. This would make the task of sifting through, identifying, and delting spam much easier. Now that I have had my grumbl