Hey, what happened to the blog comments?

So, a while back this blog -- and many others here at the Breeze -- became overrun with spam comments. They flew in at us. Hundreds of bogus comments. Most were kind of nice because most were positive, saying they liked the reporting and thought this blog was good.

Obviously they were spam.

The way this blog is set up, I get an email to let me know every time a comment comes in. Needless to say, my Inbox was overrun. Denise Nix, when she worked here, had the same problem.

When we complained, the tech department (ok, it's good ole Chris) upped the strength of the spam filter and added the little letters you have to fill in. The spam then ended.

But so did the rest of the comments.

I figured no one was reading this anymore, but it turns out there were about 15 comments that went straight to the spam filter.

I just posted them.

So, sorry about that.

And we are right back at it. The first one I read started: "Hey Altman you Jack A#$..."

So glad to hear from you again.