The new static version of this website has been up for almost a month now, and in that time I have had over 200 "spam" comments. It seems that either the old website was on some sort of spam target list or that the web is awash with crawlers looking for anything resembling a comment form. I had figured that there might be some unwanted comments, so I put in place a manual moderation process.

I'm glad I did!

However, this level of incoming comment notifications is interrupting my day far too much, so I have made the decision to disable the comment feature on posts for now. On the off-chance that anyone submitted a real comment during the last month, I apologise, but I have deleted it along with the incoming wave of spam.

I am looking at better, less-manual, ways of filtering out unwanted comments. When I find something which seems to work in the way that I want, I will re-enable commenting on posts.

In the meanwhile, you can always contact me by using my first name at the top-level domain of this blog (or any other email address that you know for me). If you do, please mention if you would be happy for your message to be added as a comment on one of the blog posts.

Thanks.