+
+> I think it's now possible to implement trackback and pingback receiving
+> support in ikiwiki. One easy way to do it would be to hook it into the
+> existing [[plugins/comments]] plugin -- each pingback/trackback that
+> ikiwiki recieves would result in the creation if a new comment, which
+> would be subject to the usual comment filtering (ie, blogspam) and
+> moderation and would then show up amoung the other, regular comments on
+> the page.
+>
+> (One wrinkle: would need to guard against duplicate pings. Maybe by
+> checking existing comments for any that have the same url?)
+>
+> As for sending trackbacks and pingbacks, this could fairly easily be
+> implemented using a `editcontent` hook. Since this hook is called
+> whenever a page is posted or edited, and gets the changed content, it can
+> simply scan it for urls (may have to htmlize first?), and send pings to
+> all urls found. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Is there any update on this? This would be highly useful and is the main reason why I am not using my blog more regularly, yet. (And yes, now that git-annex is doing everything I need and more, I thought I should revisit this one, as well). -- RichiH