Another spam comment attack [updated]

This weblog is being slammed with spam comments today. I woke up to about 200, though it was a low-fi attack involving just one IP address, and just sat down to 50 more. The last 50 were different in format, and sahred a few IPs. Anyone else noticing this? It could be a TypePad thing. You can go ahead and block the following (unless you have the hots for animal sex):

• 193.193.78.2
• 213.123.229.10
• 80.58.5.170
• 216.157.225.231
• 202.28.27.2
• 212.0.195.154
• 217.218.233.74

I still wish there was a feature to turn off comments (or make them have to go through me) for discussions that haven’t been active for X days. A few of my posts have a continued discussion, thanks to Google, but most sit empty to collect spam.

Update: OK, there is a steady stream. I delete a whole page of 20 comments and by the time I see the listing refresh there are 3-4 new ones. These are really vile comments too–snake sex, eel sex, you name it. I can’t let the Google Bot find the links. There needs to be a “turn comments off” button for the whole site. Let me have a few hours of silence TypePad!

Update 2: 100s more comments. This is the largest attack I have ever had. Probably 600+ in 24 hours.