id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
2933,Drop ping servers that systematically fail from the ping list,c960657,,"When pinging update services like http://rpc.pingomatic.com/, any error message returned by the service is ignored.

I run a weblog index like Weblogs.com, except that my index is only for weblogs written in Danish. In order to ping my site, users have to sign up in advance. When I receive a ping on my XML-RPC service, I verify that the site mentioned in the ping is subscribed to my service. If it isn't, I respond with an error message (flerror = true) as described in the weblogUpdate.ping specification, [http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom]. However, Wordpress just drops this error message without letting the user know that shouldn't ping my site.

This may not sound like a big problem, but it is for me. 99% of the pings I recieve are from users who are not registered and who are clearly not Danish so they are not eligible for inclusion in my index. They have probably got the URL for my ping service from lists like this http://www.instant-info-online.com/wordpress-compressed-all-inclusive-ping-list.html that they have blindly copy-pasted to the Wordpress installation without checking whether their pings are relevant on all the listed services. I currently have no way of asking these users to stop pinging my site.

I would like Wordpress to show these error messages to the user, so that he can remove any services that reject his ping.",enhancement,closed,normal,,XML-RPC,2.8,normal,wontfix,has-patch commit early,