Spam and Comments

This morning, I read Michael Specter's piece on spam - which inspired me, this afternoon, to spend a while un-junking comments that had been mislabeled by our site's spam filter, a problem that seems to have grown worse of late. So - if you were wondering why your comment hadn't shown up, or if your comment still hasn't shown up, or if it doesn't show up in the future, I'm probably not blocking you (I don't usually block comments); it's the spam filter being overzealous, and I apologize. And if you want to know why it's overzealous, well, this blog received over a hundred spam comments in the last hour alone.

Comments

I don't think your spam filter is letting any comments at all through right now.

Posted by BP | August 1, 2007 8:53 PM

I don't think your spam filter is letting any comments at all through right now.

To wit.

Posted by John | August 1, 2007 10:00 PM

Check....

And good article.

Posted by Jay | August 2, 2007 9:07 AM

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(just checking)

Posted by Bill | August 2, 2007 10:27 AM

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and in my defense my comment above didn't show up right away.

Posted by BP | August 2, 2007 10:42 AM

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Posted by wkeuty lykzfnqgb | August 3, 2007 12:45 PM

I know this is a late entry, but I thought I'd put it out there anyway...why isn't there a law saying charges for spam purchases, like gambling debts or any other pernicious debts, are legally void? If spammers were not allowed to collect on their sales I think it would do a lot to crimp the practice.

Posted by wayne s | August 4, 2007 8:22 AM