Comments Will be Moderated, beginning immediately.

Like every blog,  we wage a constant war against spammers.   But spammers always seem to be ahead of the game.   They are able to leave hundreds of comments at once, even with the safeguards that Typepad has built into its software.  The only sure way to block the spammers  is to moderate comments — something we haven’t really wanted to do.   But it looks like its time to finally give moderation a try.   So starting now,  we will moderate comments.   That means that if you post a comment, it may take awhile to appear.  Indeed, if it’s off point, or inane,  or otherwise inappropriate, it will never appear. 

Many bloggers tell us that moderated comments promote much more useful discussion.  So let’s see.