Comments on: Scoble Speaks Out against Reposting Feeds http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2006/12/09/scoble-speaks-out-against-reposting-feeds/ Happy Grandparents Day! Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:45:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adam Audette http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2006/12/09/scoble-speaks-out-against-reposting-feeds/#comment-2633 Adam Audette Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:24:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2006/12/09/scoble-speaks-out-against-reposting-#comment-2633 <a></a> Robert Scoble mentions in his post that copying the feed un-cited is nasty, but it's double nasty when all the trackback spam comes pouring in. I'm sorta amazed people use trackbacks... Why offer the ability to link - to link in gobbed, italicized anchor text - from pretty much anyone? Sure you can always edit them in the backend, but I'd rather just disable trackbacks on the blogs I publish. Anyway. I'll go away now :-)

Robert Scoble mentions in his post that copying the feed un-cited is nasty, but it’s double nasty when all the trackback spam comes pouring in. I’m sorta amazed people use trackbacks… Why offer the ability to link - to link in gobbed, italicized anchor text - from pretty much anyone? Sure you can always edit them in the backend, but I’d rather just disable trackbacks on the blogs I publish.

Anyway. I’ll go away now :-)

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