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

[Matt Mullenweg]

Joefish wrote:
> 1. Deactivate Akismet.
> 
> 2. Publish the new article with the link and trackback to the old article.
> 
> 3. Reactivate Akismet
> 
> 4. Retrieve my pingback from the spambox.
> 
> It's always seemed curious to me that my pingback is flagged as spam
> when I have no spam plugin enabled, but there it is. This behavior is
> very consistent, so I've never been sure of it's by design.

If that's happening then it has nothing to do with Akismet.

You probably have a bad rule in your Options > Discussion blacklist 
that's catching things.

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