Joshua Kinberg wrote: > Here's a good explanation on Trackbacks and Pingbacks: > <http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks> > > They're very similar but slightly different in their technical > implementation. > The easiest way to describe the concept is "remote comments." > Sometimes you want to comment on a post that someone else wrote, but you'd > rather write the comment on your own blog. Trackbacks and Pingbacks notify > the original author that you've written a comment and it exists on your own > site. The notification process also allows your remote comments to be > included in the comments section of the original blog post.
One note in regards to WordPress... If you set it to accept pingbacks, you may get "pingbacks spam" and I know that in older versions, there was no approval for pingbacks like there was for comments. (This may have changed in v2.x) Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
