Due to heavy spamming over Xmas the file mt-comments.cgi has been disabled. So the comments function is turned off. No comments can be made, nor any trackbacks.
We are currently in the process of a long overdue upgrade to Movable Type v3.14 plus MT-blacklist as a first step to deal with the pernicious comment spam problem. It would appear that there has been a targeting of MT, due to the popularity of its publishing system, by the spammers.
I've been waiting for Movable Type to fix the bugs in their MT-blacklist software that resulted in escalating comment spam that caused extreme server loads. Movable Type has been working on the problem.
I'm not sure whether the spam comment problem has been solved. People are voting with their feet and moving on --to WordPress.
In the meantime--until the upgrade has gone through--comments can be emailed to me and I will incorporate them into the post as an update.
Update
The upgrade has been successful. Problems have been encountered with installing the Blacklist plugin.We will work on that tomorrow.