sorry, but...

I've put comment-thread word verification back on. The stream of spam never became a torrent, but I've been getting spam comments at a rate of 1-2 per hour, so it's becoming a lot like Chinese water torture. I'm sorry that word verification means an inconvenience for my two regular commenters, but do recall that it's also an inconvenience for me: despite Blogger's claim that a blog admin doesn't have to deal with word verification on his own blog, I do, in fact, have to click all the squares that show crosswalks, traffic lights, bicycles, cars, buses, and trucks—as well as the "I'm not a robot" check box.

Suffer one way or suffer another.