I recently recommended MSN Spaces to my dad to start up a blog. He got really excited about it and began posting his thoughts and photographs. Today, we discovered that for people to leave comments, they must have a .NET passport. Personally, I have nothing against passport. I think it's great, but not everyone does. There are lots of people scared to create a passport because they think there is some kind of privacy issue involved. I can see this as a defense against comment spam on the blogs, but to my dad, it's a barrier for his friends and family to join in the conversation. We're looking into all the options, but I may recommend he look elsewhere for his blog hosting needs.