pingback oddity
Hmm, every entry in From the Orient has been given a pingback from “From the Orient”. Moreover, as there is no automatic pingback client, and I forgot to pingback Hixie’s Buffy entry[1]. And yet, there is a pingback entry for From the Orient on that page.
What is weirder is that the entry is just for http://www.dellah.com/orient/ not the full permalink. Shouldn’t this have failed?
Is this a kind of pingback spam? I dunno what has happened, as Stuart hacked pingback into MT, and its a pretty rough hack into the perl code (not that I know what the perl code is doing as Perl remains unKnown to me).
So, if someone else receives a pingback from me that is unnatural, I apologise but I don’t know what might have caused it.
[1] Not strictly true as I didn’t feel my entry warrented a link.
UPDATE: It wasn’t every entry, just the entries on my front page at the time it happened.
UPDATE UPDATE: Mystery solved, as Ian had been testing a new pingback client producing some odd effects.