We’ve heard from a number of readers that our blog hosting service’s comment-blocking software–er, I mean spam filter has been blocking legitimate comments. This seems to be a universal problem with Typepad blogs that they claim to have fixed, see here. If you have problems going forward with comments, let me know.

UPDATE (12/20 morning): Although Typepad said they believed they had made a change that would stop most comments from being trapped by the spam filter, we continue to have problems. When I got to the office this morning, there were three comments sitting in the spam filter that I had to released. I’ve notified Typepad, as they requested, and hopefully we’ll get a fix soon. In the meantime, be aware that any comment that gets trapped as spam is not deleted. Rather, it sits in a queue where I have to individually release the comments. I’ll try to keep on top of that queue as much as my schedule allows.