Sorry to those who had their comments held in a queue for moderation… this was a side-effect of trying to deal with trackback spam, for which Typepad offers entirely inadequate tools. It’s impossible to globally turn off trackbacks without also doing the same for comments, and impossible to moderate trackbacks but not comments.

I can’t imagine what it must be like to be using Typepad as the backend for a raft of newspaper blogs, as some titles are doing. It’s at times like these that you really appreciate the flexibility of Movable Type, and Mr H’s ability to wrangle it at a moment’s notice.

The spamstorm appears to have passed (I’ve deleted, literally, thousands of the things over the last few weeks) so everything’s back on…. we’ll see what happens.

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