spam comes in many flavors - all distasteful

I've been receiving a steady stream of totally distasteful trackback spam for the last couple of days. So I've now totally disabled trackbacks on ths blog. Too bad - another nice, useful, network feature ruined by avarice. Hey, I've got an idea - why don't we go back to the old days and disallow commercial use of the network? Well, one can always dream...

And then I was cooking dinner this evening when the phone rang, and a male with a strong southern cracker sort of accent says:

"Hello, is this Oren?"

"yes."

"This is the Internet guy."

"What Internet guy?"

"The Internet guy...the reason I'm callin' is, we see you've been on your computer...we've got just what you wanted - you can make lots of money at home in your spare time."

"Take me off your damned list and don't you ever call here again."

Sheesh.