Clemens Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > For a while, spammers hot linked to the trac search results with a full URL > as search term. Trac has a feature where it adds a “quick link” to the bottom > of the results when you do that, essentially generating a link to that page. > > People were using that to abuse MacPorts Trac to link to their page so that > Google (and I guess other search engines) would index their site as linked > from MacPorts, presumably to increase their page rank.
Can’t this “quick link” Trac feature be disabled? And if not, that might be worth a feature request? It indeed sounds like an open invitation for abuse. Nils.
