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Ghost in the Trackback Machine

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 1st, 2006 4:09 pm

This is weird.

About a day or 2 ago, I started getting a stream of Trackback notices by email. At first, I feared it was something Beth warned about after my use of a spam enticing word.

But no, this was a string of trackbacks triggered from my own posts, going back to a year ago, to either the same entry or another old post. So my blog, on its own, is sending trackbacks to itself.

Weird. I updated WP to 2.0.5 a few weeks ago, and have not done anything to the code in the last 2 days.

So who is out there putting voodoo on my blog?

Weird.

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2 Responses to “Ghost in the Trackback Machine”

  1. Miki Watts Says:
    December 2nd, 2006 at 3:24 am

    Could be some search engine following links and triggering the trackbacks ?

  2. Alan Says:
    December 2nd, 2006 at 9:20 am

    Not sure it sounds far fetched.

    For now, I chopped it my going into the database and turning all the ping status flags to off.

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