"That's the way it ought to be"

Since blog posting has been low in the last few months - a fact several people reminded me of in St. Paul - I haven't been checking for comments as often as I should have. And since there hasn't been a lot of action, recently, and it's been 18 months since the very first post of the blog, please forgive the reminder:

The very first post of this blog set down the basic rules, and one of them can be summarized as "no anonymous comments." I've only had to turn down a handful of comments to the blog for violating these pretty generic public forum rules so far, and the majority of those turned down were spam. Anonymous comments are an increasing number, though, and every one of the few that I've rejected on that basis so far has been one that would have met the guidelines and been posted and responded to, if it had not been anonymous.

Since I can't, by definition, tell anonymous commenters privately that their anonymity is an obstacle, I'm reminding them of that here.