Some notes

I had some trouble with my blacklist. I was not able to add new URLs to the blacklist. Some error with max_data_packet thrown by MySql. Strangely, I seem to be the only one who has ever got it in the history of MT Blacklist. Has any of your blacklists never gone above 3700 entries?

I wasn’t able to fix it. So I worked around it by deleting a whole bunch of blacklist entries and putting catchall strings in their place. So for example if you have legitimate URLs with the string “porn” somewhere in it, you won’t be able to put it in my comments anywhere. I hope those false positives will be so rare as to be non-existent. If are a nice Bengali girl with the unfortunate name of Aporna, tell me

Then there is Swami who has fired another shot in the long battle between us on the subject of Gandhiji. I will respond some time. And by the way, I too don’t know how to manually trackback to a site. Is it even possible? I think it uses HTTP POST to do it and you need to write some kind of script to do it.

5 thoughts on “Some notes”

  1. Oh, you could’ve asked me. 🙂

    Go to “new entry”, enter everything, then scroll down all the way.

    See that little box saying “URLs to Ping (?)”?

    In that, enter the permalink of the entry you want to send a TB to.

    Ta da!

  2. I know *that* Madman. I meant *manually*, as in, if swami, a blogger user wants to leave a trackback to my post, but blogger does not do any pinging. Then there must be a way to send a trackback right?

  3. Then there must be a way to send a trackback right?

    Of course. Write your own XML-RPC widget. 😉

    Unfortunately, Blogger’s growth has been retarded for a long while, despite their acquisition by Google. And Trackback is an MT innovation, so it may not be adopted by them any time soon.

    But all hope is not lost! Blogger users can now sign up for Haloscan which has added support for TB recently. They have a tutorial for it too.

    The only downside of Haloscan is that there is no auto-discovery in their implementation. You have to manually specify the TB URL. (Apparently, they’re working on it.)

  4. Thanks Ravi and Madman… Until blogger does something, i will continue to use the pre-historic trackback… 🙂

    I am too lazy to code…

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