Sure, I still get a bunch of trackbacks and pseudo-comments from the folks who want to sell you viagra and lesbian-on-lesbian love videos.  They are ubiquitous, and must apparently interest someone (maybe your he-men, xstripper?) or there wouldn’t be so many websites vying for your attention.

But there has been a new, and disturbing, trend in the blawgosphere.  I have been getting a bunch of spamalicious trackbacks from lawyer websites trying to sneak in their wares.  The biggest violator of my sovereignty has been for a child custody website.  No, I can’t include a link because that would give them what they want, and that isn’t the purpose of this post.  But they have deluged me with spam, which naturally makes me think that these must be some pretty important lawyers.

The next most interesting approach has been from an immigration lawyer in Brooklyn, who is working much harder than the mere trackback spammer.  This spammeister has people posting comments here in barely cognizable English (not to be confused with my own comments in barely cognizable English), and at the end putting a little infomercial about their immigration practice.

At first, I though this was just somebody who had yet to get the basic idea that they don’t get to come to someone else’s blawg to advertise themselves, and I deleted the infomercial part of their comment.  Not that the comment was worth keeping, but it didn’t otherwise break the rule.

In the past, I have deleted comments or portions of comments that link to other blogs, websites or promoted lawyers gratuitously.  This blawg is not available for advertising, whether deliberate or inadvertent.  I keep an eye on things for that purpose, because I do not want to let that sort of think creep in.  If I wanted to advertise, I would put the stuff that pays me into the sidebar like some other blogs do.  Someday, I may end up doing that.  But even so, it will be my call, not the spammers.

So if you want to let lawyers know that HGH and child custody are readily available on the web, go do it somewhere else.  Please.