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I like having visitors to my house. I hope you are entertained. I fight for your right to free speech, and am thrilled when you exercise said rights here. Comments and e-mails are welcome, but all such communication is to be assumed to be 1)the original work of any who initiate said communication and 2)the property of the Mudville Gazette, with free use granted thereto for publication in electronic or written form. If you do NOT wish to have your message posted, write "CONFIDENTIAL" in the subject line of your email.
Original content copyright © 2003 - 2007 by Greyhawk. Fair, not-for-profit use of said material by others is encouraged, as long as acknowledgement and credit is given, to include the url of the original source post. Other arrangements can be made as needed.
Contact: greyhawk at mudvillegazette dot com
The purpose of the Open Post is (hopefully) obvious. Those with something to say can link their blogs here and those readers who are interested can follow those links to the source. This whole inter-linking thing is what the blogosphere is all about. Given that Mudville is a fairly large blog, we?re pleased to offer an opportunity to help the blogosphere grow - a goal we've been committed to for some time. Because our purpose has always been to send readers to other blogs, we've never been overly concerned with the few who game the system and create a trackback link here without actually including a link to this post in their respective post. This is, of course, a breech of blogosphere etiquette, but not one I previously felt was worth noting.
However, wiser folks have convinced me I was wrong. Those who do provide a link to this post actually send a few readers here too. Those readers in turn are likely to read something else in the open post. In other words, they keep the cycle going. Those who create trackbacks here without actually linking do not - but they aren't cheating Mudville as much as they are cheating the other folks who post here.
Not only that, but this post is designed to display only 21 trackbacks before the new ones start replacing the old - so there's a double foul - when someone freeloads they probably bump someone else off the list.
So henceforth that's a red card offense - and any post that doesn't actually include a link to the open post will be deleted. Any repeat offenders will likely be banned permanently.
This is no problem for the vast majority of folks who link here. For the remaining few, please feel free to play by the rules henceforth. Your fellow bloggers will appreciate it.
Have at it gang, Mudville is yours.
