Trackback Spam
February 14, 2006
Back in the day (oh, six months ago) I was plagued with comment spam. Then I installed a more recent version of MovableType, and comment spam was reduced to a dull roar. Then, last Friday, I started to get bombed with trackback spam. Beginning Friday and continuing through this morning, I deleted hundreds of trackback spam that originated from 72 different IP adresses. I went through the painstaking process of deleting the trackbacks and then adding each IP address to my list of banned IP addresses.
This was really dreary, and I know the problem goes aways with a further upgrade to MovableType, but I am swamped. So I did a little poking around and found a tool, spamlookup, written by Brad Choate. Brad was an independent developer, but is now part of the engineering team at MovableType developer Six Apart. I had a little trouble with the installation files, but was bailed out by Brad and my man Paul Crook. Since installing it a few minutes ago, it has already deflected three trackback spams.
My life is now 1% better.
Posted by Bill Trippe at February 14, 2006 9:00 AM
