the upgrade

Even though spam.module was tagged as available for Drupal 5.0, it turned out it was not functional at all for the new release. I discovered this only after upgrading all of my Drupal sites.

With the spam and captcha modules both unavailable for 5.0, comments would have been wide-open to spammers, so I’ve reverted to requiring user accounts to post comments both here and on Uncabled. You can register for an account or, like with most Drupal sites, you can use your login and password info from another Drupal site — simply change the format of your username to other_username@other_website.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but really, it’s the spammers’ fault.