IP Blocking in Blogger

Blogger has been adding more features to give those using their service more control over their blogs.  I especially like the new spam filter feature which  was a long time coming.  That means those using blogger will no longer have to use a third party script to control spam comments.  What Blogger really needs to add is an IP Blocker.  At the moment those using Blogger have a couple of ways to block someone from reading their blog while leaving it public for those readers who do not cause any problems.  Both of these require third party scripting.  In researching the topic I discovered that despite the opinion that IP blocking isn't all that effective there is also the opinion that in some cases it is enough to make a problem commenter move on to green pastures.  Other blog hosts offer the option of IP blocking so it can't be that difficult for Blogger to offer it as well.  I also discovered that there has been requests from Blogger to offer this feature and at one time it was available through draft mode a couple of years ago.  Hopefully we will see the ability to IP block in the near future.

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