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Trackback, NO. Clickback YES:

I still don’t get it why trackback is needed. You can always get the information on, who is linking to your site, from a search engine Any pings that you get from trackback will be incomplete, so a search engine is needed any way. Now that Technorati released its API, even the means is there. What I would really like is to know where people are going from my site. What do they look at and what are people interested in? There is no way of knowing that with the present system, unless everyone shares their logs. But logs are not spam proof, they get refferal spam. Clickback is the way to go.
PS: Forgot about tracking the clicks by putting a gate way, but its dirty. Thanks to Roger Benningfield for his comments

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