Site Maintenance: now with TypeKey protection

I apologize to the few people that comment here on a regular basis, but in order to add to the conversation you must now register with Movable Type's TypeKey service.

I thought that upgrading to Blacklist 2.x would be enough, but in the past 48 hours my site has been hit an unusual amount of times - all of them trying to post comment spam. Movable Type's automatic moderation of irregular comments is fine, but it's becoming impossible to keep up. Waking up to a stack of about 200 new comments that have to be added to my spam blacklist and then deleted is not something I want to keep doing. I'm sure my webhost isn't too happy about absorbing this excess traffic either.

I am hoping that this is only an interim fix, as Jay Allen posted on the MT development blog, and a more robust solution is developed. Movable Type is an excellent piece of software, and after seeing 3.0 I have no plans on switching. Like Windows is the target of viruses, the large install base of Movable Type is clearly the ripest target for the craven propagators of comment spam.