Back in the mists of WordPress time – that’ll be 2005 – many people in the wordpress.org forums were mystified by trackbacks. (In 2004 it was ftp among others). So I created a blog in the /wordpress directory on my old domain and that served only for people to ping and trackback to. They got somewhere that was linked to a How To and that they could perfect their techniques on. Worked a treat. Had hundreds and hundreds of posts, many times that in the inevitable pings / trackbacks to those posts. Every so often I’d clear the db and reinstall WP, change the theme, check what was going on but otherwise I left it alone. Last few days though I’ve been getting a few ‘Please moderate this comment’ emails and today I went to look. Several spam posts but one in particular had 860 spam comments thrown at it. None got through of course but 860? So with that and the other spam I’ve killed the blog. It’s 4 years later and thanks to spammers everyone know what a trackback and a ping is anyway. The rest of that /wordpress directory will be nuked at some point. It mostly harks back to 2004/5 when WP help was embryonic. I can still remember writing 7 ftp guides in a day or so..