The error message should actually have read "Sorry this comment no longer exists, it has been deleted by the site administrator."

We had a barrage of spam comments come into the blog last night and they were quite creative and I deleted them all, so the email you received for a comment waiting for approval had already been deleted before you could action it Ananda.

Each message didn't contain a link in the comment like normal spam but a semi-well crafted comment that was related to the post in question. The only part of the comment that threw up the spam flag to me was that each commentator's name was something like 'Name MP3' and a link to a MP3 site in the URL. This happened for Games, MP3's and a few other nasty site links.

Well crafted SPAM - make a lock and they make a better pick. Over at another institution, I'm getting SPAM like there's no end, they're all with a FROM: address that is either myself, or someone who belongs to said institution - the SPAM has fake FROM: addresses.

Does this other 'institution' have Akismet available for Anti-Spam? (Akismet Plug-In Directory)

Sorry widening the SPAM issue. I was referring to email SPAM which already has SPAM flagging at the mail servers and it still get through to the Lotus Note email client.

This fits the high quality error messages that Worse than Failure's Error'd section.

Vote +1 for using Akismet to help with spam.

Whoever is handling the SPAM before it gets delivered to the Lotus Notes email client needs to upgrade the SPAM filtering, ensure that they are not an OpenRelay and even upgrade the SMTP servers to use Secure SMTP (SSL).

Here comes a heap more blog spam....