[DesDev] WEO trackbacks

[Martin Burns]

On 4 Mar 2006, at 18:33, John Handelaar wrote:

> ...are now disabled.
>
> I received 2900 spam trackback notifications
> in the last 90 minutes.  Time to discuss whether
> we want them and if so, how to handle them.
>
> On my own site (1)  I've started using Bad Behavior,
> which rejects all malformed requests.  I've not seen
> any spam for 3 days but my own site spam load was
> rather lower than WEO's.

...and on mine(2), I have the up to date spam module that
1) blocks IPs after 3 attempts
2) auto-deletes spam trackbacks after an admin-defined time

The thing that so many spams makes difficult is spotting genuine
trackbacks amidst pages and pages of spam. We've had a few (and
I *mean* a few - 1 a week or less) genuine trackbacks, and some
of them have been pretty nice about us and the article. But I'm
not sure whether that's worth enough to put up with the spam.

And also, in the current theme, trackbacks look like poo ;-)

Cheers
Martin

(2) http://www.easyweb.co.uk/

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