So, maybe I feel a bit hurt, but nothing illegal going on here. Obviously it makes sense to try to direct people to more information about a topic and sending a trackback to an entry about the same topic makes sense.

Unlike the destruction of Usenet in which Kevin Marks raised the specter of, we as publishers have the ability to control and managed the situation with TrackBack and wikis. We will have to (and should) actively maintain the quality of such things. I'd advocate deleting low quality or spam pings. As a publisher of a weblog that uses TrackBack for post-to-post linking, I have the right to delete a ping I don't think furthers the conversation. I've deleted pings because they just lead to a page with a link back to the post they where pinging.

This is exactly what Houssein did, and my weblog is configured to accept and publish incoming TrackBacks. Nobody did anything wrong, no need to send the troops to wipe the evil out.

"A trackback is a suggestion. It is a request to the site owner to link to a particular thread. The site owner should feel free to accept or decline it.

A trackback is different from a two-way link. To my mind, if you want to have true two-way links between pages, this should be mediated by a third website. This would allow anyone to comment on any other website or page, and have their comment or relevant information available and easy-to-find for anyone who wanted to find it. (But this is not, repeat not, what trackback is for.)

Where is it written that when you trackback to an entry, you should definitely mention that blogger and how magnificient their blog as well their literary sense is. That's just absurd. If my blog ever gets pinged, I would never remove it as long as the pinging entry shares the same topic. I mean does it even matter? Does it take anymore than a few extra bytes of bandwidth? The reaction I got for trackbacking and not mentioning that blog is a classic example a small number of people trying to prove that they are the gods of their realms and they make the rules.

What I don't understand is how can you categorize my behavior as spamming when I am trackbacking to a post that shares the same exact subject. But as they say, different schools of thoughts exist to define what trackbacking means… one says it should only be used to comment on a specific entry and the other uses it to link together entries on the same topic.

To me personally, trackbacking is an effective way of interconnecting the greater blogging community, if there exists one.