I get an astonishing amount of comment-spam, nominally about dresses - wedding dresses, prom dresses, square dresses and how to fold them, and so on. None of it ever appears so I don't know why they bother, but simply deleting it all from my email queue is becoming ever more tedious. So I've changed one setting - old posts are now closed for comments after 60 days instead of 360, in the hope that at least some will now bounce off.
Oh, and a corollary of all this is that I'm far less careful than I used to be about wading through "comment requires moderation" emails. If you've got one that's stuck, mail me separately.
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Dear Extended Jane Family,
We here at Jane Family headquarters are so appreciative of the love and affection you have for and share with Baby Jane. You are all so thoughtful, and generous, and loving, that it really overwhelms us sometimes.
NBA commissioner David Stern has imposed a dress code on all NBA players. If they're on the bench but not in uniform, they must wear a sportcoat and dress shoes.
In NYC, the going fashion seems to be for the men to dress up as bumblebees (they walk around in suits and ties with the bouncing bee eyes mounted on slender springs on their heads), while the women all dress up as lampshades in red and black.
In order to raise money for schools in India, Christie's auctioned one of the black dresses that Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's:
Maybe you could ask scienceblogs to install some sort of captcha program.
http://www.captcha.net/
Also scienceblogs could use Akismet to filter out a lot of the spam: http://akismet.com/
[It already is -W]