It is too long to post as a comment and that would also duplicate content. I am assuming that people with experience of trackback spam are over-cautious, but hovering over the link would have shown that it was a regular blogspot post with a title relevant to this discussion, not Texas Hold'em. There is a thin line between caution and paranoia, best tested empirically. Clicking on that link would have provided all the neccessary information.
And I still like this blog (despite rude welcome) though it is new to me. I found you via Slacktivist, and intend to keep an eye on you in the future.
I stand by my notion that it was not spam. It was trackback and labeled as such. It's your blog and your decision. I still think that your decision is wrong. I think your readers would have profited from following that link.
Blogger and other newer platforms do not support trackbacks - probably because the institution of trackback has outlived its usefulness. Almost all of the 10 million bloggers worldwide have started within last 6 months and do not care for or ever use trackback.
Sitemeter, Technorati, etc. let the authors know who links to them. E-mail speeds up the process. Posting a link inside a comment to a post that was linked is NOT deemed either spam or bad manners any more, except by very few old-time purist fogies.
Deleting the link prevented the readers of this blog from reading a post that directly references (and approves of) this post, as well as the Durbin post. We are bloggers, we are ahead of the times - do not allow yourself yo get stuck in 2001 blogging practices.
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