After much heart searching, I have decided to leave the comments open and unmoderated. Although this opens the blog to the possibility of spammers, I am a real believer in an open web, and as far as I can tell, Moveable Type (my blog editing software) does not yet support a function that is a suitable compromise for me. This might change though, because one of the beauties of MT is that it is open source and I can modify the application myself. Now, I'm really not that much of a wiz, but my downstairs neighbor is a software engineer and has volunteered to walk me through an upgrade. What will hopefully happen is that the first time you comment, the comment will wait for approval before appearing, but then, after I approve your first comment, as long as you use the same name and email, your comments will be automatically approved unless I have to delete something you post. Although really malicious spammers could easily post comments using already approved names, I don't see this happening since 99% of spam is automated. Security in obscurity! Any thoughts on spam? Here's your chance to vent....