Well, following in the footsteps of the larger blogs, I'm going to have to disable trackbacks on all past and future posts. The signal-to-noise ratio is simply too low for them to be worth it. Almost all of my recent trackbacks have come from Murdoc's weekly Linkzookery, and as much as I appreciate them they aren't worth the ~1000 spam trackbacks I have to delete every week. So, the trackbacks are going away. Too bad, they were a neat invention... but with all the blog connection tracking sites that are around these days it's easy to find who is linking to you by other means.
Thanks again, spammers.
I use WordPress with SpamKarma, and get almost no comment OR trackback spam.
What? A Linkzookery trackback isn't worth you spending all your free time deleting spam?!?
No more Linkzookalanches for you! LOL!
(Incidentally, I've been having intermittent trouble with my trackbacks (besides the spam, which hasn't been very bad on the trackbacks) and am considering ditching them altogether...)