In the early days when blogs became popular on the internet, Trackback became a well supported method for one blog to ping another blog if a link reference was made in a new entry. This way, bloggers could automatically post a comment and back-link to a remote blog.
This is rarely used so most TeamPage admins will not specify a Trackback space and, at each Space level will DENY the Trackback permission to the Everyone Group. This effectively makes the feature disappear from the TeamPage User Interface.
TrackBack allows a person in one weblog to alert "tell" another weblog when referring to an article in that target weblog. The TrackBack "ping" that is sent can include the name of the weblog, the name of the author, a link back to the article the author wrote and an text excerpt.
Traction supports the ability to send a TrackBack Ping to another Traction server, another TrackBack enabled weblog, or any other system capable of receiving a TrackBack ping. The following topics describe how to Trackback InboundSetup and how to Send a TrackBack Ping.