I have officially killed off pingbacks and trackbacks here on Baltimoremick.  After receiving the latest in a string of annoying pingbacks, I decided to turn this feature off.  You know the kind that begins with:

<Your blog name here> wrote an interesting post today on <Blog Post Title>
Here’s a quick excerpt <Your Content>

Thus, pingbacks and trackbacks are dead on my blog.  They are not used nearly as much as they used to be, and this rash of link spammers that attempt to post part of your content just to get folks to click-through has been annoying at least.

So, here is my small attempt to strike back at link spam.  Screw you, link spammers!