Dealing with comment spam

I have been inundated with comment spam. You haven't seen it because LiveJournal does a good job of screening it, but I end up having to deal with it on the back end, and it's wasting a lot of my time.

As an interim solution I have changed the comments setting so that only people who register with LiveJournal can post. I apologize to folks who don't want to: completely understandable. You can still reach me via my contact's page, or if you're on Facebook, I can also be reached at my page there.

Sigh.