Blog Maintenance

I have several things I want to write about, but I have been spending far too much time (two hours last night, forty-five minutes today) deleting spam Trackback pings. I think that trackback pings may have sounded niftier when they were created, and I find very little legitimate use for them.

As a result, I have changed my preferences, so that new entries will not have pings enabled. Gradually I will get them turned off on all of the archives, but it has to be done one at a time, so it will take a long time to get there. I am also working backwards on pings, and have gotten as far as mid-day Monday. That was what I did for two hours, and I am simply not willing to put that much time into blog administrivia. So, if you like pings, sorry, but I have neither the time nor inclination to have to spend an hour a day deleting spam pings, so I am taking the Draconian approach.