Re: Trackback spam in Blogs

2006-09-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:25 +1000, Ian Holsman wrote: > > On 16/09/2006, at 6:04 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi. > > > > (3) Checking that the trackback caller actually links to your blog > > somewhere in the first N

Re: Trackback spam in Blogs

2006-09-16 Thread Ian Holsman
On 16/09/2006, at 6:04 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi. > > (3) Checking that the trackback caller actually links to your blog > somewhere in the first N bytes of the post they claim to be linking > from > (unclear what a

Re: Trackback spam in Blogs

2006-09-11 Thread James Bennett
On 9/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has someone already built an interface to Akismet or a similar service? I don't do trackback, but I use Akismet filtering for comments on my blog and I've been insanely happy with it (around 60% of comments I get are spam, and Akismet

Re: Trackback spam in Blogs

2006-09-11 Thread Steven Armstrong
On 09/09/06 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > My two sites, trogger.de and trogger.info , were recently subjected to > a large trackback-spam attack. We're talking in the area of ten > thousand trackbacks within two or three days. Plus a couple hundred > spam somments in the same period.