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Taking a leaf from Pingback’s book

10th October 2002

Moveable Type 2.5 is out. From the changelog:

Added TrackBack auto-discovery, which can automatically find TrackBack ping URLs based on permalinks in entry bodies. These entries can then be pinged without any extra effort. Inspired in part by the pingback specification.

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