I may have been one of the freeloaders when I first started to send trackbacks. I was just plain clueless until Jay at Stop the ACLU took the time to explain how trackbacks work to me. If I was an offender, I'm sorry - thank you for providing this open post and helping the blogosphere (and us bloggers) to thrive. Mudville is a great source of traffic.

Deborah- We were all new bloggers at one time. I am sure no one will hold an honest mistake against you.

Mr. & Mrs. Greyhawk- Thanks again for providing this forum. You guys have been a big part of helping the blogosphere in general, and my site in particular,grow. I truly appreciate it!

I know I did that recently myself. I have you on my blogroll, but I know for sure that I have posted here meaning to edit my post to add a link, then got sidetracked and never got it done.

I apologize for the times I failed to do so and promise to remember (post link first would be a good idea) in the future.

I enjoy the site, and appreciate you having the open posts.

This is a great service. Wish blogger.com allowed one so I could do it

Guilty with stupidity I guess - I thought that is what "open trackback parties" were about. Blogbursts are different. Maybe all this technology is overloading my little brain!

I've noticed a few times that linking directly to the open post sent people to a bad link. Of course, this was before you were having trackback/comment problems. What would happen is they would get sent to the post without any of the trackbacks listed. Only by going to the homepage of MG were the trackbacks displayed right in the post.

So to make sure people actually made it to the MG I started just linking to the MG homepage, so they wouldn't be confused by the bum link and leave (I received a few emails about it).

Course I tried it just now and it seems to work fine - Murphy's Law I guess..lol.

I've been an offender. I don't know how I could have beeen so clueless, I simply did not think. I found 4 since we started our blog in July and added links to our posts.

Apologies to the other bloggers and to Mr. & Mrs. G. You guys are all so generous!

New at blogging, nearly a year of rolling into mudville, keep up the good work.

Anyone who's had problems or not understand the trackback system:

I use HaloScan commenting, which has an option for sending trackback pings on its site. But for vanilla Blogger users, you can also use WizBang's standalone trackback pinger, which can be found here:

WizBang's TrackBack Pinger

It's pretty self-explanatory -- just fill in the blanks. Put a link to the Open Post permalink in your post, then use the TrackBack URL (click "Trackbacks" to find it) in the appropriate slot on WizBang.

Hope this helps.

After all the traffic you've sent me, I must apologize. The few times that I have used the Open Post, I'm pretty sure that the majority of them I did not link back to the Open Post.

I did not know the fine line rules of ettiquette in the matter, and for that I do sincerely apologize. I'm posting at my site now to define the matter, but I will not be tracking back to here because I have no intention of bumping anyone while I just restate your point.

I have to appologize that I have not included a link in my recent trackback posts, will remember it next time....

Hey Greyhawk(s)! Thanks so much for the Open Posts. They get folks reading my blog that otherwise would never find me. I for one appreciate it immensely. I owe ya a least one beer the next time we tell each other lies around a campfire somewhere.

Editor's Note: re-added after accidental deletion

Guilty as charged, I won't let it happen again.

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