Does anybody understand the trackback feature on our blogs? I don't. Auto-trackback is enabled by default on our blogs but you can uncheck this in your settings tab. I did so today because, over the past 36 hours, I received a number of emails informing me of new trackbacks to a post I made about a month ago, with a link to edit it. However, I was unable to find anyway to delete individual trackbacks. And why did I want to delete them? Because all of them pointed to urls that were very explicitly porn and quite revolting. The second disturbing factor about these trackbacks is that all but one point to my post on the blog.de domain - I was unaware of its existence. The latest notification I got was on the blog.co.uk domain which means that these malicious people managed to jump domains, based on the same blog post. So, I have managed to switch off the trackback feature and these links are no longer visible on my blog. But are they still visible to search engine spiders, the FBI, and general snoops that patrol adult content - will I be showing up on these radar screens?

I have emailed support and hope they will act soon - at least to explain the intended purpose of these trackbacks. In my ignorance, they have proved a backdoor to my site and to a site I didn't know I had.

I have been reading the post, Training in England, trying to figure out why it would be a target for porn marketeers. I can see absolutely no connection - unless training is perv slang for some revolting activity.