Comment on Comments

A note to my regular visitors:
I have had a major problem with spam attacks at this site. In an attempt to address this growing problem, the IT staff here at Belmont made some changes. During that process they inadvertently wiped out about two years worth of your legitimate comments.
They assure me that they have back-ups and are working to get the comments restored. (Don’t ask me how — remember that I am basically a Luddite blogger…..).
I appreciate the wonderful dialogue that many of you help to contribute to this site. Please be patient as the problem is getting fixed.
All recent comments from the past couple of weeks are OK, and any new ones that you continue to add will not be affected, so please keep ’em coming!
Jeff