I would like this too.
I noticed because I’ve had some trackbacks that just reference my site – not a post, the blog as a whole – and they are getting tagged onto the first post I made using WP.
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2004/01/17/so-then/
Comments are shut off with the ‘auto-close’ plugin, but obviously tbs and pings are being added.
If a trackback to my site works, then a spammers job just got a whole lot easier didn’t it ?
I’ve had no trackback spam, but this seems like a great big hole somewhere, and it could do with closing.
whoa, this is something of a revelation :O someone needs to hide this thread all together :O before anyone get to know about this :O
Note: that would be pingback spam, not trackback spam. And it’s not so much spam as it was a bug in the previous incarnation of pingbacks.
In 1.3, this bug won’t be there. (I just fixed it in CVS, heh.)
About the auto-close plugin’s ability to close pingbacks and trackbacks, I’m not sure. We’ll look into it.
As for editing/deleting trackbacks and pingbacks, it is planned.
In fact, with the current CVS, there doesn’t seem to be a distinction between trackbacks, pingbacks, and actual comments in edit-comments.php.
Ahh, I knew it would happen sooner or later and just a few hours after reading this I got some trackback spam of my own. Blissfull isn’t it? Meh! Damnit I hate spammers.
