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Under Attack

A quick heads-up — in the last couple of days, this site has been under siege from a spam attack, which has flooded the news comments with advertisements for online poker, internet gambling, and so forth. Bad mojo, both annoying and serving to make the real comments more difficult for the reader to find. I’ve been running around like Chicken Little, trying to caulk the holes and delete the intruders, but it’s frankly beyond my means; as a result, I’m shutting down the commenting system for the time being.

With any luck, those responsible will get bitten by rabid dogs or something, or at least move on to a more interesting target. Until then, attempting to post comments will result in an error page. You can still read already-posted comments.

If anyone has a really insightful suggestion for dealing with this that’s less stupid than this scorched earth method, please drop me an email and pass it along.

UPDATE: Comments have been switched back on, tentatively.

— Brandon