September 2009 Archives

I found that some users were being blocked from commenting by part of the anti-spam system. If you've had trouble with commenting, please give it a try again. I expect the change I've put in this morning will liberate more than one of you from comment Purgatory. :-)

--RC

Thanks, readers, for your patience during the system maintenance Friday evening.

I upgraded the blog software to Movable Type 4.3 a few weeks ago, and would like to take a moment to remind folks of how to deal with any problems with commenting.

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