Comments on: New tactic against Trackback spam http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/new-tactic-against-trackback-spam/ A weblog for people who otherwise wouldn't. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Geof F. Morris http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/new-tactic-against-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1217 Geof F. Morris Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:54:14 +0000 /?p=349#comment-1217 You might grab Spam Words, which seems to be helping me catch a goodly chunk of the TB spam attempts. You might grab Spam Words, which seems to be helping me catch a goodly chunk of the TB spam attempts.

]]> By: John Wilson http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/new-tactic-against-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1204 John Wilson Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:20:47 +0000 /?p=349#comment-1204 Heh, no, then I would have to turn them back on again. My hack only changed the code in a couple places which are easy to remember. Im holding out until SK gets good enough to trap all tr*ckb*ck spams (SK is catching over half of them.) Heh, no, then I would have to turn them back on again. My hack only changed the code in a couple places which are easy to remember. Im holding out until SK gets good enough to trap all tr*ckb*ck spams (SK is catching over half of them.)

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/new-tactic-against-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 Geof F. Morris Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:31:01 +0000 /?p=349#comment-1190 And anyway, John ... go to Options --> Discussion and change your setting to disallow TB and PB pings, and then run an UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status = enum('closed') WHERE ID >0; to kill pings on each entry. And anyway, John … go to Options –> Discussion and change your setting to disallow TB and PB pings, and then run an UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status = enum(’closed’) WHERE ID >0; to kill pings on each entry.

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/new-tactic-against-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1188 Geof F. Morris Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:26:44 +0000 /?p=349#comment-1188 Did you encode the < and > with their ASCII equivalent? You might need to escape the slashing as well. Did you encode the < and > with their ASCII equivalent? You might need to escape the slashing as well.

]]> By: John Wilson http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/new-tactic-against-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1181 John Wilson Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:49:40 +0000 /?p=349#comment-1181 Hmm, I had to edit your comment, I guess you can't say Tr*ckB*ck at all. Mysql must be ignoring punctuation. Hmm, I had to edit your comment, I guess you can’t say Tr*ckB*ck at all. Mysql must be ignoring punctuation.

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/07/new-tactic-against-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Geof F. Morris Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:31:21 +0000 /?p=349#comment-1172 John: They were doing that because theyre 1) following the TrackBk specification and 2) treating TBs as they do other comments. John:

They were doing that because theyre 1) following the TrackBk specification and 2) treating TBs as they do other comments.

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