check this out http://stackideas.com/forums/how-to-remove-all-trackbacks#reply-66940

it worked for me when i had 358k+ to do. always take a backup before you do anything though. i also disabled trackbacks for the future.

Thanks for sharing this Jennifer

Ok, just saw this, the macro ended up zapping them. so I am good now. thanks for the tip though!

just some food for thought, these seem easily accessible by bots, so I am not sure if something can be figured out to stop that. Warning as well, this left unattended appears to slowly munch up CPU on the server. There was an immediate drop just by turning them off which stopped the bots from using them. It appears in the logs that the bots were hitting the site every few seconds.

Hello Mark,

It's actually the same as spam comments, unless you don't monitor them We'll be taking this feature out altogether because trackbacks are known to be a spammer's paradise.

Mark, I'm glad you are simply removing Trackbacks. I have several HUNDRED THOUSAND from my EasyBlog install, and my dedicated server was taken DOWN several times due to several spam-attacks, which ultimately proved to be focused on track-backs function in EasyBlog. I turned mine off, and now, cleaning up the mess.

What a shame, this good idea got corrupted by spammers.

Thanks for understanding John! Yeah, it was initially accepted in the Wordpress community in the beginning but later was seen as a good tool for spams

That makes sense! Thank you for the instruction on how to dump all that waste. I used PHP MyAdmin. Done.

You are most welcome John