Aaron--
I'm wondering whether there was a recent software upgrade on the articles side which left a security hole or whether the security hole was there and someone just found it, or whether our settings got changed somehow. The last few days there has been a significant upsurge in Spam comments on the Articles side--twenty-one that I deleted this afternoon after having deleted at least ten on Friday and more on Thursday, if I recall correctly. It looks like someone has figured out how to get past the Spam filters. (Of course, it could be nothing more than that the software has suddenly been recognized as in popular use and so is being targeted by more Spammers; I'm not sure how many such posts have been blocked, because I don't usually note that.)
Anyway, it's a bit of extra work but not overly burdensome, and I thought I'd call attention to it in case there's been a change that can be fixed.
--M. J. Young
