M Squared T has implemented Policy 403 in order to deter the increasingly common e-mail and website spam that eats up precious administration time and abuses bandwidth resources.  Policy 403 is as follows:

Any IP address that uses the blog comment mechanism or trackback to advertize any product, particularly through automated means, will be blocked from accessing this site.  Users of such blocked IPs will see the 403 error page stating that access to the site has been denied.  Any user who unintentionally became infected with virii, trojans or spyware and spammed the blog through that may send a message to webmaster at msquaredt dot com requesting to be reinstated after being placed in 403 status.  Legitimate requests will be processed promptly.  Please note that valid comments containing common spam words will land in the moderation queue for review.  For that reason, please try to avoid using those terms on this site. 

Any person who "flames" the comments will be banned from commenting at the user level.  No warning will be issued.  Flame comments will be deleted.  Requests for reinstatement will be reviewed at webmaster at msquaredt.com.  Repeated flames using different names from the same IP address or IP block will be blocked at the IP level, per the preceding paragraph. 

At the same time, comments that disagree strongly with the author's perspective will be allowed to stand, as long as they are not flames.  After all, M Squared T cannot act in its role as discussion site if divergent views are removed.  Policy 403 is intended as a boundary to prevent those who are willing to take advantage of others or cause them harm to be prevented from doing so, not being able to carry out their intentions.