Here's an essay that should be of interest to all of us.

Read  Crisis?  What Crisis? by Stephen Waters.

h/t SDA

Over the past few days I've been getting a large number of spam trackbacks.  While I was getting rid of the last crop  I accidentally deleted the 5 newest comments.

Sorry about that, I really enjoy your comments.

Blogware doesn't allow me to block trackbacks.

Does anybody know how I can end this problem?  It started on Friday.  Until now I have only had the odd trackback, although every one has been spam.

Annoying.