On Wordpress Allowing Pingbacks is allowing trackbacks.

  -- Enric

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Haugstrup"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:41:01 +0100, Pete Prodoehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > One note in regards to WordPress... If you set it to accept pingbacks,
> > you may get "pingbacks spam" and I know that in older versions, there
> > was no approval for pingbacks like there was for comments. (This may
> > have changed in v2.x)
> 
> Really? I have never gotten pingback spam. I have gotten a lot of  
> trackback spam. Wordpress verifies links recieved via pingbacks (it
checks  
> whether the webpage really does contain a link to you). Sucks if
spammers  
> are getting through that.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
> <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ >
> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology.
>







 
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