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August 26, 2005

Trackback... spam? goof? not sure what the heck it is...

I have a trackback that appeared this morning on an old post of mine. The link leads to wuzzadem, who I don't think is a lowlife scumbag spamming slimeball. But his page doesn't show a link to me, and it doesn't show up in the trackback section when I go to the individual article to edit it.

Weird.

Posted by: Ted at 11:09 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I just got a whole lot of trackback spam on old posts...

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at August 26, 2005 01:47 PM

2 I've had that happen before, but by a friend I know i not a spammer. He just wanted a free link from a related post from a bigger blogger. That maybe the case here?

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at August 26, 2005 02:02 PM

3 Maybe I don't understand the mechanism. This is sending a ping without the link? And why wouldn't it show up on either post?

It's random, because the posts at either end are in no way related. I'm really hesitant to fuss at this point, but if it's intentional, it's a slimy way to do things.

Posted by: Ted @ at August 26, 2005 02:09 PM

4 David, I think we all get the trackback spam. Every time I get hit, I turn off trackbacks to that old post when I delete the spam. It's really helped as more and more old posts deny pings.

Posted by: Ted @ at August 26, 2005 02:11 PM

5 John from Wuzzadem sent me a TB like that once. He's good people, just not necessarily in on the etiquette thing.

Posted by: Rusty @ at August 26, 2005 02:20 PM

6 My point being that I thought that Pixy automatically turned off trackbacks to my old posts... just wondering what's going on?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at August 26, 2005 02:58 PM

7 Ted,

I have no idea what you're talking about. I never sent a trackback to the post you reference.

Posted by: John from WuzzaDem @ at August 26, 2005 04:49 PM

8 Yeah, I automatically turned of trackbacks to old posts. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to actually work. Bah.

I'm not sure what's up with Ted's trackback. It could be weirdness related to the database issues we've had. That would be bad.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 26, 2005 06:10 PM

9 Yep, and we all know computers never do odd things randomly.

Like I said, this one is really weird. Two unrelated posts at two unrelated sites (no reciprical links, at least I've never linked to WuzzaDem), and it shows up on my main editing menu as a trackback, but not on either post.

Damn that Rove.

Posted by: Ted @ at August 26, 2005 06:32 PM

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