This is just a real, quick note to apologize to several HogBlog readers whose comments never saw the light of day.
I got an email earlier from a fella, Tom Sorenson who runs the Base Camp Legends blog and online community. Apparently he’s been trying to post up comments on the Hog Blog for a little while, but they never seen to show up. I never saw them in the moderation queue, because the spam-blocker on our blog network has been sending him directly to the spam bin.
Sure enough, I opened up the spam collection to see what I could see. In the past 15 days, the system has collected over 3000 suspected spam messages. However, after scanning through them I found several from Tom, as well as a few from other legitimate readers. I couldn’t go through all 3000 messages in detail, so I may not have rescued all of your comments. Also, the messages are automatically deleted after 15 days, so I’m sure I’ve missed an awful lot of your comments over the past couple of years… and this kinda bums me out.
Anyway, now that I see what this thing is doing, I’ll try to monitor a little more closely. I am most sorry to those of you who took the time and effort to post up a comment, only to have it ignominiously devoured by my spam blocker. I hope you are all still around, and I look forward to reading your comments in the future.
Well, sorry to create more work for you!
I don’t know why a lot of the spam filters are nabbing my comments. I don’t know if they don’t like gmail accounts or what.
Keep up the good work – I enjoy readin’ the blog posts!