Comments on: Eliminating (Most) Trackback Spam http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/ Web Development | Nashville, TN Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:28:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CentreSource: Blog » wordpress trackback notification http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-10422 CentreSource: Blog » wordpress trackback notification Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:39:40 +0000 http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/#comment-10422 [...] Last month, I posted about the methods we use to block comment and trackback spam. As I noted then, we hadn’t had one single successful comment/trackback spam then, or since. However there was still one tremendous annoyance. Dan Sandler’s trackback validator plugin effectively eliminates the trackback spam, however Wordpress was still stubbornly e-mailing me about every single one. [...] [...] Last month, I posted about the methods we use to block comment and trackback spam. As I noted then, we hadn’t had one single successful comment/trackback spam then, or since. However there was still one tremendous annoyance. Dan Sandler’s trackback validator plugin effectively eliminates the trackback spam, however Wordpress was still stubbornly e-mailing me about every single one. [...]

]]> By: Tim Warner http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3481 Tim Warner Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:56:59 +0000 http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/#comment-3481 Thanks very much, Chris, for making me aware of this plugin. I had grown so discouraged with my TrackBack spam problem that I had removed my wp-trackback.php file, run a SQL query across my WP database to turn off TrackBacks/pingbacks, and so on. Now that I've upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1 and restored my wp-trackback file, I think I'll turn TrackBacks back on along with this lil' plugin. Have a good one, Tim Thanks very much, Chris, for making me aware of this plugin. I had grown so discouraged with my TrackBack spam problem that I had removed my wp-trackback.php file, run a SQL query across my WP database to turn off TrackBacks/pingbacks, and so on. Now that I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1 and restored my wp-trackback file, I think I’ll turn TrackBacks back on along with this lil’ plugin.

Have a good one,
Tim

]]> By: Darrin http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 Darrin Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:10:03 +0000 http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/#comment-3453 I wonder if they'll make a version for pMachine's Expression Engine. That sounds useful. I've built a nice blacklist and IP block list - which I publish to my .htaccess file, which helps a lot - but I still get a dozen or more trackback SPAMs a month. Most of the comment SPAM has ceased, thank goodness. I wonder if we could get a law through congress that all convicted spammers will have their hands cut off. That would stop them, or at least slow them down. :-) I wonder if they’ll make a version for pMachine’s Expression Engine. That sounds useful. I’ve built a nice blacklist and IP block list – which I publish to my .htaccess file, which helps a lot – but I still get a dozen or more trackback SPAMs a month. Most of the comment SPAM has ceased, thank goodness.
I wonder if we could get a law through congress that all convicted spammers will have their hands cut off. That would stop them, or at least slow them down. :-)

]]> By: Dan Sandler http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3443 Dan Sandler Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:45:56 +0000 http://blog.centresource.com/2006/02/01/eliminating-most-trackback-spam/#comment-3443 Thanks for the Trackback Validator shout-out! Please do make sure the plugin's "send us research data" box is checked, since this is an ongoing research project here at Rice University, and we need all the spam data we can get. (And thanks also for the pointer to WordVerify; it's lightweight and does one thing well, so it makes an excellent complement to the Validator.) Thanks for the Trackback Validator shout-out! Please do make sure the plugin’s “send us research data” box is checked, since this is an ongoing research project here at Rice University, and we need all the spam data we can get. (And thanks also for the pointer to WordVerify; it’s lightweight and does one thing well, so it makes an excellent complement to the Validator.)

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