A Note on This Website's Policy Regarding Anonymous Comments

All comments here are subject to moderation before being published. This is a nuisance for me, especially as the site gets few enough comments as it is !

However, I have seen too many unmoderated sites become unreadable as a result of the many kinds of abuse of free expression in which the Internet specialises, and as owner of this website I claim a monopoly on making it unreadable :-).

Still, with comment volumes low, and only some, mostly polite, spammers to censor, I have developed a liberal approach, which permits nearly everything.

That includes anonymous commenters most of the time, even when I don't like what they say.

However, I basically disapprove of anonymity, outside of truly sensitive situations, and if you are tempted to comment, but want to hide your identity, you risk not being published here.

It is unapologetically random, but by using a pseudonym (e.g. "Eamon") and giving a fake e-mail address, intending commenters increase the risk of being filtered out.

Other things that increase that risk are defamatory or abusive remarks, whether about me or about anyone else, shameless self-promotion or prolixity.