Trackback?
Jan 15, 2009, 4:46 pm
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Trackback?
When writing a post, below the edit window, there is a new field called "Trackback", which is labelled: "Send Trackbacks to (Separate multiple URLs with spaces):"
What is this all about?
What is this all about?
Jan 16, 2009, 3:45 pm
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A trackback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and so referring, to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Wordpress, Movable Type, Typo and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of linkback.
Jan 20, 2009, 2:38 pm
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Jan 20, 2009, 5:03 pm
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Cholula, please simplify this for me. And then simplify even more.
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
Jan 20, 2009, 5:27 pm
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Cholula, please simplify this for me. And then simplify even more.
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
Cheers.
Jan 20, 2009, 6:04 pm
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Cholula, please simplify this for me. And then simplify even more.
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
I don't know anything other than the website I linked to in my above post.
Perhaps this thread will catch the attention of somebody who can explain the process.
Jan 20, 2009, 6:45 pm
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Cholula, please simplify this for me. And then simplify even more.
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
If someone starts a thread, posts on a thread, or clicks on a link that another poster has put in a post:
Is that someone's IP address then potentially visible to another poster who is using Trackback?
The former can be easily accomplished outside of the Trackbag realm by posting a link to/including an inline image from a server, under the control of the 1st poster. However, assuming that the thread has more than 2 readers, there would be no way of determining exactly 'who is who'.