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  • Hey guys. I had this weird thing occur on my blog and I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions.

    Last night I got a comment from my own blog. It was a comment on a very old post containing an excerpt from another old post. Incidentally, the post that received the comment also happens to be linked to from the excerpted post and, last night, I also edited the excerpted post. So… it seems like there is a correlation. Anyway, when I ran the ARIN WHOIS thing, it turned up my own web host (laughing squid), plus some other host (rackspace.com) that I’d never heard of.

    Is this just a bug, or is something funky going on?

    Also, probably unrelated, it seems that I have stopped receiving emails when I get new comments despite the fact that the “send me an email whenever anyone leaves a comment” box is checked.

    So… any suggestions???

    Thanks guys!! I appreciate the help.

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  • Sounds like it might be a trackback; look up “trackbacks” here in the forums for an explanation. If that’s it, there’s nothing to worry about.

    Thread Starter mydogischelsea

    (@mydogischelsea)

    Hmm. It seems strange that an edit to an old post would cause a trackback on another post, but I suppose that is what it probably is. Thanks!

    Any idea why my comment emails aren’t working?

    Thanks again,
    Laura

    Thread Starter mydogischelsea

    (@mydogischelsea)

    Update: my emails have started again, for the most part. Some comments are apparently slipping through unnoticed, but most of them get emailed. I guess we can say that the crisis is over. Thanks guys!!

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