Is anybody else having a little explosion of trackback spam? More than half of my email this morning was notifications of spammy trackbacks. I could solve the problem by turning off my trackbacks -- it's been a couple of years since anybody used one legitimately -- but they make me kind of nostalgic for the halcyon days of 2004.
Gah! Another one came in as I was typing this post. I was remembering how I started blogging, after I found Chez Miscarriage while glumly googling "miscarriage prevention." I don't know what happened to Getupgrrl, but I am still grateful for the way she made me laugh out loud on a bleak day.
Gah again! Two more as I was sitting here reminiscing -- connecting with Arwen after I posted about the Liturgy of the Hours, meeting up with Summer on a trip to DC when Pete was only 2 months old, giving my home address to Magda with a little trepidation, agreeing to disagree about Bush with Lauren.
Oh, well, it will never be 2004 again, and life's too short to spend very much of it deleting pharma spam. I'm turning off trackbacks. It was a fun trip down memory lane, though.
Ah... memory lane. I was SO SAD when you closed the other blog. But then, again, what I loved the most are things I won't need after all -- scientific support to have a home birth and breastfeeding discussions (sniff sniff). Your blog was AMAZING, though, you were THE authority on so many issues. Last week I spent some time re-reading Jo (from Leery Polyp, now Modernity Ward -- I know her in person, met her at LLL meetings), Jo's birth stories and she mentions (and links) to one of your posts on homebirth and I felt all nostalgic... etc.
Is this spammy trackback linked to your old blog?
Chez Miscarriage was amazing, wasn't it? Somebody should have saved the post and comments to the "mommy drive-by" entry, right? I feel so sad when someone quits blogging like that... I was thrilled when you came back!
Posted by: Lilian | February 08, 2010 at 12:17 PM