Seems our anti-spam plug-in SpamLookup has been blocking a lot of legitimate trackbacks lately (thanks to Security Watchtower for the alert) - including all blogspot trackbacks!
The situation is now fixed, and we encourage blogs to start sending us trackbacks again so our readers and authors can follow the links and see what you've written.
Here are some quick tips for adding simple Textile formatting to your comments, though you can also use proper HTML tags:
*This* puts text in bold.
_This_ puts text in italics.
bq. This "bq." at the beginning of a paragraph, flush with the left hand side and with a space after it, is the code to indent one paragraph of text as a block quote.
To add a live URL, "Text to display":http://windsofchange.net/ (no spaces between) will show up as Text to display. Always use this for links - otherwise you will screw up the columns on our main blog page.
A helpful hint to Haloscan trackback users on Blogspot, regarding trackbacks: you can make it a lot easier for your posts to receive trackback pings if you implement trackback autodiscovery in your Blogspot template. Proven to work
Thanks for the quick follow up and the fix, evariste and Joe.
Thanks to Bill for handling my concern and to the admins at Winds of Change for the quick fix. Keep up the great work.