We have always required visitors to include, at a minimum, a name and an email address when posting comments to our site. This is done so that we can send you a personal response via email, if necessary. But up until now, we’ve always displayed your email address as part of the comment listing on each post.

Starting today, that is no longer the case. The email address you enter is no longer be displayed in the comment listing. Hopefully this will satisfy the privacy concerns of folks who don’t want their email address available to the general public and/or spam harvesters. Admittedly, I have not heard of one single complaint from someone whose email address was harvested or abused because of showing up on our blog, but just the same I’d like people to be more comfortable with leaving comments.

Of course, if you don’t even want us to know who you are, that’s fine. Just enter in any bogus name or email address, and your anonymity will be protected. Well, mostly. We’ll still know your ***IP address|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_address***.

Leave a comment on commenting. Go nuts!

Update
I apologize to anyone who has been getting ‘forbidden’ messages when trying to post comments to our blog or any other blogs at prwdot.org. This was due to some weird problems with the cookies Movable Type sends, in combination with a security filtering rule on my web server. I’ve turned off this rule for the time being, so hopefully you won’t run into any more problems with this.