Re: [blogite] pingback: when to pingback ?

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From: Stuart Langridge (aquarius-lists@kryogenix.org)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 11:46:43 BST

Ian Hickson spoo'd forth:
> Well... personally I think that you should never edit a post to the extent
> of removing content (and the protocol has no way of removing pingbacks
> anyway). But the other cases seem reasonable.
>
> I would consider pingback spam be any of the following:
>
> a pingback from a page which doesn't include the appropriate link
>
> a pingback which has already been sent (a duplicate)
>
> a pingback from an automatically generated page (i.e. one with no
> further comments)

How is this particularly spam? The spec dictates that servers must
return a fault code, and the first two of those have fault codes
allocated. Admittedly it takes up resources on your server to answer
these pings, but I wouldn't mind how prolific spammers were if no-one
ever got to see any of their spam.
 
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