Mollom - Fails Miserably on Eoinbailey.com

Mollom makes a bold claim on their website:

"The average efficiency is 99.79%. This means that only 21 in 10,000 spam messages were not caught."

When I first read that I was having spam problems, and a CAPTCHA just wasn't doing it - not to mention that a CAPTCHA is a very inelegant method of dealing with SPAM. So I gave Mollom a go. It's still installed here, but the efficiency rate on eoinbailey.com: closer to 50%, some days as bad as 10%.

On the 16 August a surge of SPAM hit here, 172 comments were submitted. Mollom let 152 through. Every single one of them was SPAM. Admittedly that's the worst it's ever performed, but that is shockingly bad. I had to disable automatic publication of comments because of it.

I might not even be that bothered by it if it could at least identify the obvious spam, the ones trying to sell drugs, or sex sites? The comments don't even have any obfuscation text in there, it's all a sell. I'd rather not have to write a module to do something about this, but I guess it might come to it yet.