Moderated blog comments

I've been frustrated in the last coupleof days by a couple of blogs with moderated comments.  Since DominoBloghas had 99% accuracy blocking comment spam, and several other solutionsexist to deter it for other blog technologies, I think moderating commentsis really more of a control thing than a true anti-spam measure.  Inboth of these cases, I'm pretty sure that's the case.  And since it'sbeen at least two days in each case, and my comments still haven't been"moderated", I'll just cover them here. Case #1 -- MichaelHermann wrote about initial experiences with IBM Workplace. I'm not sure what approach a "dot net junkie" takes toWorkplace Services Express, but given that background, unsurprisingly,his initial impressions are negative.  He has a problem downloadingfrom the IBM website (seemingly a commongripe) and instead of retrying,figures that he can blame it on IBM web server, Workplace, or WebSphere,a "12.5% chance of the 3 components working at any given time". Sort of like Windows, IIS, and SharePoint, but I guess I shouldn'tgo there. ;)   His second impression is a rant about the downloadfile name, and how he can't figure out what the files are because of it. And where's the readme?  Well, Michael, the file namemight not be self-documenting, but I'm sure you read the screen where youactually downloaded from, right?Case #2 -- JeffUbois covered the latest Radicatipress release on MessagingNews.com. My comment was simply to point to myblog entry about this "news". Given one of JeffUbois's roles, I would thinkhe'd be interested in the relative accuracy of this "news".Agood question is, should I even care anyway?  I found these blogsthrough technoratiand/or blogdigger. They may not have much in the way of readership, but if I could findthem by searching for Lotus Notes or whatever, others making similar searcheswill, too.  As such, it would be nice if their blogs allowed for thediscourse implied by having a comments feature.  And if they're notinterested in that then turn the comments off or at least make their commentspolcies clear.  I would then know to recommend they switch to DominoBlogor some other appropriate blogging tool....or to not bother paying attention.