Suffered a huge spam attack in the comments. Took precautions this time and our wise web-master has installed MT-Blacklist which allows a one-step removal of the spam comments. Interestingly the spam strikes posts no one is likely to read any more. For example, I had to search the first 1000 entries before most of them were caught and deleted.
Originally I arrived at my editing page delighted that an apparent conversation was occurring (after all there was an increase of about 20 comments), but, alas, it was spam. The harsh way of the web-world.