I've just been doing a bit of sleuthing and happened to discover that Movable Type has been ever-so-kindly taking it upon itself to junk some of the comments you lovely people are leaving me. I wouldn't have known except my friend Dave, whose comments usually go through, mentioned he'd left me one yesterday and it had disappeared. This led me to poke around in my control panel and I discovered the "Junk" section. Sure enough, Dave's comment was there, along with ten others from the past week that never posted. When someone posts a comment I'm supposed to get it in email....but since these comments weren't actually posting I was never made aware of their existence. I haven't the slightest clue what possible criteria the program could be identifying that would make it categorize certain comments as junk (especially since more than half of the comments were made by people who've made comments previously and not had a problem). But now that I know I will be checking the junk folder every day and also will do what I can to tweak the settings so it isn't so militant.

If you've left a comment since I got my new design and it never showed up -- this is what happened. I'm thinking that comments are only kept in the junk folder for a specific amount of time and then automatically deleted, so I'm wondering if there is a bunch of stuff I missed altogether which is now gone for good. At any rate, my apologies to anyone who's had this happen. Please don't let it discourage you from commenting in the future. I have identified the problem and will be monitoring the junk folder closely.