Two Blogs and a Public Service Announcement

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By Neuroskeptic
Jan 14, 2011 6:55 AMNov 5, 2019 12:17 AM

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First up, here are two new(ish) blogs which have been consistently excellent since I started reading them:

Second, an announcement: Blogger has a spam filter for comments.

It's rubbish.

It seems to think that any comment containing more than one hyperlink is spam. Actually, all the spam I get contains one link, and hence makes it through, while the real comments with multiple links, which are usually interesting and sensible, get blocked. A Mr. "Generic Viagra" (no really) can leave 20 comments in 5 minutes with impunity, but more than one link, and you're

out.

I would love to turn it off, but you can't. Thanks Google. My comment policy is, as it's always been, that all comments except spam are welcome. So if your comment hasn't appeared, it's not that I've deleted it, it's the spam filter.

I check the spam folder as often as I can, and allow the proper comments through, but you might want to avoid comments with more than one link. Maybe split them into multiple comments. It's not ideal but, as I said, it's not my filter.

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