*please pull if you like*

I have to commend Phillip for setting proper boundaries. I am in favor of MODERATED comments for the following reason: It allows me a means of communicating with the blogger, such that, I don't have to leave an official email, which could be used as discovery if I were a whistle blower. I encourage, brave and intelligent bloggers like Phillip to please find this secure root to communication. Email is not safe, and this is NOT a symptom. Just look at the news to understand that NO chat or email or comment or blog entry IS confidential. Nor is myspace or whatever.

Dr. Rost has to use the land line route, but that can not work well internationally.

I pray (read wish, intend, w/e) that there would be a world, where my computer wasn't hacked, my email wasn't searched for keywords, my phone calls and internet calls were not intercepted, and my private information searches using google or yahoo were private. But they are not.

Bloggers know the IP addresses of all those who visit, as do every website. They couls send you advertising based on you viewing a zyprexa web page. They only don't do it, because they haven't figured out how.... yet.

Sorry to be so doom and gloom.. But I wanted to share info with those I care about.

BK

What if I think of a really good name for the new SBD after 5 days.j/k

Philip,
Can't you get a comment form that requires typing in a code to protect against spam? It seems to work for me and it seems many blogs use this device. I don't know if I got as much traffic as you get if it would still hold up, but I've only gotten one piece of spam in 3 months.

I enjoy reading comments on your blog almost as much as reading your blog so I would hate to see it limited. It sounds like you're trying to figure out how to avoid doing that, though, so good luck!