Apologies to any readers who found that their comments over the last few days fell into a black hole. The culprit was a new comment-spam filter which proved to be 100% effective.
It blocked everything. Sigh.
Everything should be fixed now. You’ll also notice that any new comments from John now show up with a little box around them.
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October 25th, 2005 at 10:02 am
For instance, this is an official comment.
October 25th, 2005 at 10:02 am
And this is not.
October 25th, 2005 at 11:00 am
I would just like to say that my last two comments were absolutely brilliant. Probably the best comments ever made by a human being. Alas they were sucked into said black hole.
October 25th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
If John’s comments get a little box, I would like some nice hearts and flowers. And stars are always good.
October 25th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
John, ever since the update and the two anti-spam filters I emplyed (this one and lr2Spam) I’ve had zero spam comments. I used to delete at least thirty a day. I’m much, much happier (and get to spend more time with my loved ones, less time deleting spam). Speaking of loved ones, how’s the fam? Haven’t heard much on that front of late…
October 25th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
For some reason I never seem to get spam comments on my particular blog. But, also, I get absolutely no comments at all… What a sad world.
October 25th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
| | | I have a box around mine too!! | |_______________________________________|
October 26th, 2005 at 1:48 am
Honestly, the spam filter was like taking the 9th grade IQ test all over again. It was shock horror.
October 26th, 2005 at 8:00 am
Did you use spam karma 2 by any chance ?
October 26th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
I don’t see any box.
Story of my life, really . . .