I am getting slightly downhearted over the volume of Blog spam that heads my way. True Akismet catches and destroys a large amount; and here I apologise to the genuine posters that get caught, these tend to be those who post multiple links and have free-mail accounts, but if you feel that the debate would benefit from your contribution, you could always drop me a line, and I will see if I can get your post through. Some things do slip the filter and appear on the blog; I do try to remove these offending posts as soon as I am aware of them. Some ‘borderline spam’ posts might get a reprise if the content is on topic for the original post or follow-ups, but I might remove URLs to inappropriate sites.

I have noticed that a lot of spam comment goes to the same old posts, so, as and when I get incoming spam on an old post that is not really an active topic I will lock that post from further comment.

Please remember, I blog because I enjoy it, it costs me nothing (except time, which I gladly give).  I do not enjoy deleting spam, it is a waste of my time, time I could perhaps use to write new posts.