I just installed the Email Whitelister plugin for Movable Type and populated it with the email addresses of all the folks who have already commented on this blog. So if you have ever left a message here before (and you use the same email address as you have in the past), your comment should be automatically approved. If you are new, you’ll have to wait for me to pick your comment out of the increasingly inscrutable spam filters I have set up. (Which I will be happy to do, and will add you to the whitelist for future reference).

Please note that I don’t publish commenter’s email addresses, but I do require an address to comment.

Akismet, which I installed earlier this month is a strange one. It marks damn near everything as spam, which, I suppose, is better than the alternative. But every now and then it has a hiccup and lets through something bizarre–there was a completely obvious donkey porn spam with 200 offensive keywords that got through this morning. So I’m not sure if I should leave it running or go back to trying to tweak the settings on Spamlookup.

As for trackbacks, forget about ‘em. I almost never get legit trackbacks, so I’m turning them off.

Sigh. Curse you, spammers!

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