B. U. G. S.

I get a LOT of spam when I go to moderate your comments.

The fact is that I almost never moderate YOUR comments. If I find that I have accidentally deleted one of YOUR comments, I always apologize in the blog and ask you to send it again.

But I usually accidentally erase YOUR comment because of the spam. I have to erase each piece of spam because I have to search it carefully to be sure the huge pile of spam does not hide a real comment.

Which is exactly the reason we all hate junk mail so much.

Junk mail is irritating and a lot of bother. You find your mailbox full of junk you have to throw in the garbage. Worse, when you leave home awhile and pick up your mail at the Post Office you have to sort through pounds of junk mail to find any real mail.

But that’s not the worst of it.

The worst of it is that you have to CAREFULLY pick through all that bulk crap because that important little envelope from the Internal Revenue Service or somebody you need to hear from is buried in it.

And no matter how careful you are that junk mail is going to cause you to MISS something important.

I have exactly the same problem with the spam that comes in my e-mail and in moderating your comments.