[wp-hackers] WordPress Checking Own Pingbacks - Intended Behavior?

[Computer Guru]

My feelings exactly.

Here's the ticket: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5362

This isn't an Akismet issue; Akismet uses the API to check for pending
comments - intra-site pingbacks shouldn't be there in the first place.

-CG

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Callum Macdonald
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:16 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WordPress Checking Own Pingbacks - Intended
> Behavior?
> 
> Interesting, I always considered that internal pingbacks shouldn't
> appear at all, but I suppose they could be useful in some way.
> 
> I agree, if they're going to be posted, they should bypass spam
> checking. Will that need to be a change in Akismet or a change in WP?
> Is
> there a way to exclude something from spam checking? (I haven't looked
> into that part of the code).
> 
> Cheers - Callum.
> 
> Computer Guru wrote:
> > I just posted an article on my blog (WP SVN), and was surprised to
> find a
> > link from that article - to a previous article I had written  on the
> same
> > blog - flagged as spam by Akismet.
> >
> >
> >
> > IMHO, internal pingbacks should be added directly, without *any* spam
> > checking..
> >
> >
> >
> > I was wondering if there was any previous discussion on the topic
> before I
> > bugged it?
> >
> >
> >
> > -CG
> >
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