People keep writing to me to complain that the goddamn stupid comment registration system doesn't work, so they can't comment. Yes, you can. Just ignore registration and fill in the blanks with name and email (which isn't shown), and you can comment.
This is especially irritating since I turned off the comment registration system some time back, and have been dealing with all the spam that's been pouring in for the last two weeks just so people would be able to freely comment. I'm still plowing through all the comments that accumulated over my long weekend away, too…and was thinking I should have turned it back on while I was gone.
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