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Slashdot reports a comments-spam problem for Moveable Type. Really too bad, since finding kindred spirits through comments is one of the strengths of the blogosphere. 

Please, if you have a response or observation, feel free to e-mail good_and_happy at yahoo dot com.  There's a good chance they can be posted separately as comments if they are relevant, with the usual embedded e-mail address.  And please forgive us for not being willing to undertake full-time defense in the comments arena.

If we ever get traction on the trolls and thieves who seem poised to exploit every opportunity to pollute the internet commons, we'll be glad to turn our team's considerable imagination towards punishment that fits the crime. For starters, some of us know a lot of stomach-turning 19th century masochistic religious music.  Spread the word on the streets. They'll do the time.

Link via Instapundit.

Update: Another Instapundit link raises the question of how to sit on the front porch, ready to chat, without being chased in by the mosquitoes, especially for a blogger with a large audience.  Before Good&Happy, I didn't realize how much of one's persona is necessarily exposed to the world by blogging.  Not to mention the intention and semi-responsibility to post regularly. It's a pleasure, and I can see how it might become not-one.  And that doesn't mean we must "be nice." What a dreary thought! But, as the French teach their children, "be wise."  About the consequences of our interactions. Don't drive off such resources as, with care, might be sustained.

Thank you, Steven Den Beste.  I believe bloggers kept US readers honest and informed (or more nearly honest and significantly better-informed) at a point in history where we'd like to try to get it right.  At this site we operate in a different, non-political arena for the most part, but keep scanning the horizon like everyone else.  Thanks, Steven, you've helped interpret the signals.