Sam requires no trackback, just a ping. Let's see if MT makes the distinction between both.
Update: no, it doesn't. Mozblog pings, but publishing across XMLRPC will trigger auto-trackback discovery. One starts to wonder why the difference exists...? How can you ping if you don't refer to an entry, a reference which will most likely be a URL in your entry, which means you could as well make it a real trackback?