Just so you know, some enterprising spammer has started plugging random news clippings into comments here on RAS. Since the spam isn’t really following any kind of predictable pattern the only way to detect it is by hand. That’s forced me to turn comment moderation back on, at least temporarily. Please accept my apologies.

So here’s what that means for commenters: your comments will be stored but unpublished until I can unblock them. I’ll unblock them, though, as quickly and as often as I can. And of course I’ll reply to each comment as best I can.

I’ll go back to normal comments when (or if) the spam-fest dies down.