New comments have to be moderated – may be a delay

If any of our new commenters have experienced a delay in seeing their comments appear, please accept my apologies.  All first time comments have to be reviewed by the moderators, to be sure to keep spam off the blog, before they can appear. To be honest, I had forgotten about this.  From now on all new comments will be checked at least twice a day, and so delays should be minimized.