2018-07-20 UTC
# It’s fascinating to me that this explainer https://alistapart.com/article/webmentions-enabling-better-communication-on-the-internet on the Webmentions standard:
- never mentions Trackback
- nor the spam and harassment issues that caused Trackback to lose implementation share in ‘00s blogs
I hope W3C was more thoughtful than this piece. ( twitter.com/_/status/1020312765175607297)