Comments and spam

As a result of the recent site crash our spam filter seems to have reset itself to zero, with the result that we are currently being spammed to death until it relearns the difference between legitimate comments and adverts for fake Raybans. As a temporary measure we have activated the requirement to register before commenting, in the (probably vain) hope that that will reduce the amount of spam until Akismet is working properly again.

Apologies for the inconvenience and any genuine comments that may have been trashed: but moderating about 150 spam comments a day takes time we just haven’t got.