TRACKBACK SPAM….The comment spam war has now been kicked up another notch: when I woke up this morning I had to delete five trackback spams from the previous post. Two online pharmacies had spammed the post with multiple trackbacks.

I’m sure this has been around for a while, but I think it’s the first time it’s happened to me, and it coincides with a massive increase in attempted comment spam over the past week. The conversational nature of the blogosphere is definitely getting harder and harder to maintain.

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