[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2933: Show messages from weblogUpdates.ping/extendedPing

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#2933: Show messages from weblogUpdates.ping/extendedPing
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 Reporter:  c960657      |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:           
Component:  XML-RPC      |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by c960657):

 The updated patch, ping-2.2.patch, implements the two suggestions in my
 last comment. If the server returns the magic string three times, or when
 a ping server fails for the 26th time, the server is removed from the list
 of ping sites. What do you think of this?

 Assuming that a spammer is actually using WordPress (and not just spoofing
 a WordPress user-agent string), this will allow the ping server to have
 itself removed from the spammer's list of ping sites. Of course the
 spammer can just add the site again or remove the auto-remove feature from
 the PHP code, but hopefully he will realize that there is no point in
 pinging sites that are able to detect that he is a spammer.

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