Comments Are Open Again

by | May 6, 2005 | About the Site, Articles

Comments are back "on!"    Much
as I hated to, and as antisocial as it seems in the blogosphere,
I was forced for a lengthy interregnum to turn comments
"off" thanks to the reprehensible
phenomenon of "comment
spam:"  After
waking up several days in a row late last year to find myself
obliged to manually delete dozens of "comments" advertising
everything from Texas Hold-‘Em Poker to p**** pills, I decided
that exercise was bad for the soul and took drastic action. 

Comment spam is generated by automated bots whose sole purpose
in their dreary and cheesy lives is to find blogs with comments
open and to spew their bile.  But I have now installed
two pretty wonderful Movable Type "plug-in’s," MT_Blacklist and MT_Spamlookup,
which, between them, seem to have solved, or 99.9% ameliorated,
the problem.

I invite readers to test-drive the new commenting system
and let me know if fails to perform as advertised.  Tech
support is "in," as always, at bmacewen at nyc dot rr dot
com.

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