What's Your Name?

I have some friends who read and comment, from time to time, but don't want to join Live Journal. I have clung to the "Log IP but permit anonymous posting" option for that reason, but the spam has been getting ferocious, and I'm beginning to lean toward disabling anonymous posts. It's an annoyance--people who stop by to read don't see these idiot spammish posts unless I unscreen them (does that mean that no-one, including search engines--sees them until I unscreen them? In which case why are they bothering? Oh, because they're robots and don't know any better) but I spend some time deleting and banning them, and it's a bore.

So if you're one of my anonymous buddies and suddenly find that you can't comment on something, it's not that I don't love you, it's that I really don't love them.