I was looking around my blog and I found that some of my anti-spam software was working better than I thought. I had more than 800 comments that had been flagged as spam and set aside so I hadn't even noticed them when they came in. That on top of hundreds that it didn't recognize as spam which I'd already deleted.

So I spent some time looking for a plug-in to do pass-number verification where commentors will have to type in the number displayed in a graphic. I've gotten it to where it will show the random number and let me type it in, but it doesn't yet affect comment posting. That will come next. Hopefully, by the end of the weeked I'll be free from comment spam! OK, so maybe I'll have fewer spam comments. OK, so maybe it won't help, but at least I'm trying. I'm just sorry that I'm winding up making it more difficult for my readers to leave me comments. Sorry about that. Just trying to avoid wasting space and time on these unwanted comments.