I’m going to try something new with the comments on this blog, and it may not last. Up until today, I’ve allowed comments only from logged in users, which has kept my daily spam average pegged right at 0. It’s nice.
My Webalizer logs tell me that there are a lot of people reading this blog who aren’t commenting. Which is cool with me and certainly the norm across the blogosphere (I do hate that word so). But I thought I’d open things up a bit and accept comments from unregistered users. Here’s how it’s going to work: When you make a comment now, it’s going to get moderated by me (or by my anonymous partner). What this means is that when you post a comment, I’ll get an e-mail alerting me to that fact. If your comment isn’t spam (and why would you do that?), I’ll approve it, and it’ll show up on the blog. I’m never too far from my e-mail, unless it’s the middle of the night here in the Midwest, and even then I’m still physically near it, just not mentally near.
So, we’ll see how it goes. I’ve heard spam horror stories, so if this effort starts reading like a Clive Barker novel, we’re back to registered users only.