(Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:41:22PM +0000) Pupeno wrote/schrieb/egrapse: > Am I the only one receiving more that 100 trackback spams a day ?
I see a lot of activity for trackback spam here lately. Currently I have set my trackbacks to moderated because of that. I am blocking at the firewall a lot of IPs that I've seen sending trackback/comment spam and that are known IP blocks of spammers. I also block what I presume are stealth bots who look for trackback/comment spam opportunities. I'm also blocking some User Agent Strings in apache. With all of that I'm down to about 1 - 5 trackback spams a day. But it's a stupid game. It's much easier to fight against comment spam: one can filter on content, use captchas (not to my liking), use simple measures like requiring "Preview" (in latest COREBlog release), they get rid of a lot of comment spam. But trackback is harder, because it's *meant* to be automated. As far as I have found, the only plugin to deal with that is one that looks up the page that does the trackback - it tries to find if there is really a link to you and flags the trackback as spam otherwise. Sadly there seems to be a trend to switch off trackback completely. As first measure I would suggest switching on moderation for trackback. Regards, Sascha _______________________________________________ COREblog-en mailing list [email protected] http://postaria.com/mailman/listinfo/coreblog-en Unsubscription writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
