I just checked the Junk folder for the comments, and found that there were quite a few legitimate comments that came in over the last few days that had been labeled as spam. The IP address blacklist that Movable Type blogs had been using to check for spam shut down recently, and apparently there are a few bugs in the system. I'll be trying to check the junk folder more frequently until the problems are resolved.
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