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. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/