Banned.
I was getting hit pretty hard by spam comments for a while (thanks to the excellent Akismet Wordpress plugin, none of it actually made its way past the filters), so I ended up banning the IP address responsible for 99% of it.
Life was good.
And now they’re back. Different IP, but same base range. So, that entire range is now banned from this site. Don’t worry - most people won’t be affected (and by most people I mean the two dozen people that ever read this site). The IP in question is a fairly well known, fairly prolific spam center.
So goodbye, 85.255.117.* — you won’t be missed.