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October 30, 2004
Trackback Spam
Imagine my surprise this morning (4am) when I noticed the spam hitting the website. I had gotten up early to do some client work but instead found myself trying to stop the spam. Turns out this version of the software doesn't have an easy way to stop it. I ended up 'breaking' the trackback system to stop the spam.
As you may know, I redid the coding on this website about a month ago to reduce the comment spam. I had to do this when I started to get well over 100 spam comments a night. I had to delete them one at a time.
It's now harder for automated programs to drop comment spam on this website and, so far, not one has succeeded.
Now there's a new type of spam...trackback spam. Blogs, such as this one, use 'Trackbacks' to notify readers of other blogs that have referenced an article. Now the spammers are using this feature to post their spam on blogs.
Before I broke the trackback feature, the website received 20 highly-pronographic (misspelling on purpose, unlike the other ones) messages in the span of 50 minutes.
Looks like I'll need to make more changes.
Posted by Dave at October 30, 2004 11:09 PM
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