I’ve added the Moderate Trackbacks plugin ot this blog. This means that trackback entries will now go in to the queue along witih posts, which means there may be a (significant) delay in them showing up. I’m not entirely sure how the whole trackback scheme is supposed to work, so bear with me on this.
February 17th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
Well, that makes two of us! It sounds like they are at least partially automated. Here’s some documentation that might help us understand (all links stolen from Wikipedia - how shameless):
- Little Timmy asks about TrackBacks
- Beginner’s Guide to TrackBack
- TrackBack Technical Specification
In the meantime I’m gonna play some online poker!
February 17th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Thanks for the links. I’d been wondering about it for years now.
February 18th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
Crap! I got another one — this time for virtual strip poker. It’s hurting my prudish and conservative sensibilities. Quick, somebody read a manual so we can stop this thing!
Seriously, is it possible that they’re just leaching addresses and spoofing the appearance of a trackback. A new variety of spam targeted at bloggers?
February 18th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
I think it is the Wordpress software actually sending the stuff to you. I’m going to just disable email notifications for trackbacks.