The issue of folks using Classic Blogger accounts, or Beta Blogger Google accounts, to identify themselves when making comments on Beta, or Classic blogs, respectively, was supposedly fixed in September 2006.
Both scenarios seem to be active again. We do have one Blogger acknowlegment of the problem, though I don't see it as equalling the scope of what's been reported.
There are several issues about Commenting on blogs. In general, they involve authentication.
If your blog allows open commenting, ie with no authentication (Who Can Comment? set to Anyone), there will be no problem with comments. Unfortunately, this is spam friendly.
To restrict spam postings, you set authentication to Blog Members or at least Registered Users. Both of those settings require authentication, using the standard Blogger account name / password (for Classic blogs), or Google account name / password (for Beta blogs).
It appears that
So now, they're trying to repair their mistakes.
Blogger has identified two issues - Classic users attempting to comment on Beta blogs, and Beta users attempting to comment on Classic blogs. Both issues are supposedly resolved.
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