Notes for the Reader
I’m going to be too busy to post much this week so I thought I’d take the opportunity to point out a couple of things for the benefit of regular readers, newcomers and occasional visitors to this blog.
First, about RSS Feeds. If you wish to subscribe to the whole blog via an RSS feed you will find it at
https://telescoper.wordpress.com/feed/
If you wish only to see posts in a particular category, you can do so via
https://telescoper.wordpress.com/category/categoryname/feed/
So if, for example, you only want to read the “Science Politics” items via RSS the feed is at
https://telescoper.wordpress.com/category/science-politics/feed/
A full list of categories, together with the number of posts so far published in each one, can be found on the home page. You can use this to browse my back catalogue, so to speak, although I should point out that I didn’t file that many of my earlier posts in categories and haven’t had time to go back through them and sort them out…
I also wanted to make some comments about comments. Please note what it says on my home page:
Feel free to comment on any of the posts on this blog but comments may be moderated; anonymous comments and any considered by me to be abusive will not be accepted.
You may use a nickname or anonymous handle on a comment, but I insist on a valid email address that identifies you (although the email address will not be visible to anyone but me). The system that operates on comments is that, if you haven’t posted before, your comment will be held until I have approved it. Comments are posted immediately from “approved” users but I reserve the right to moderate them if they turn out to be abusive. Serial offenders are put on a blacklist and their comments will be treated as spam.
Even if you are a regular commenter you may find that some comments don’t appear straight away. That is because I operate a spam filter – spam comments outnumber genuine ones by more than two-to-one – and it sometimes makes mistakes. If this happens it is probably because your comment contains several embedded URLs, which makes the spam filter suspicious. I usually manage to rescue comments blocked in this way, but it may take a while before your comment appears.
Let me point out that there is a separate RSS feed for comments at
https://telescoper.wordpress.com/comments/feed/
if you wish to follow discussion that way.
I realise that there isn’t really a convenient way to communicate suggestions for improvements or to ask general questions about the blog, so when I have a bit of time I’ll set up a permanent page to serve that purpose.
In the Dark 
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