Re: Preventing tbping spamming ?

> But does this mean that you open up trackback to all
now ? I mean with
> this script is it enough to lessen the huge number of
trackback spams
> ?

Trackbacks keep closed (or open if  you want them to be).
This script shouldn't affect
the way trackbacks and tbpings work.

Problem is (was) whatever the state of the trackbacks, the
original script fist sent 
the notification, then try to add the entry. So, now, with
this customized script, 
every ****** spammer trying to add trackback receive an
error (because trackback is closed),
so I'm not notified at all. In that way, I'm not spammed
anymore, *with mail notification*.

Of course, no script would prevent them trying to tbping
your blog, but important is 
the way this script checks if the entry's been added or not.
Original script did not,
so even if it failed, ****** spammers receives a success
return code and may
spread the word "Hey guys, this blog is spammable, you
can freely add tbpings !!!" . So I 
may hope this would reduce tbping.


Hope it helps,

Cheers,

Seb
-- 
Sébastien LELONG
sebastien.lelong[at]sirloon.net
http://www.sirloon.net
"Syntactic sugar is just sugar, but it makes life
tasty..."
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(Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:57:17PM +0200) sirloon
wrote/schrieb/egrapse:
> Of course, no script would prevent them trying to
tbping your blog,
> but important is the way this script checks if the
entry's been added
> or not. Original script did not, so even if it failed,
****** spammers
> receives a success return code and may spread the word
"Hey guys, this
> blog is spammable, you can freely add tbpings !!!"
. So I
may hope
> this would reduce tbping.

Indeed. When I started to return 403 status code to
trackbacks I
wouldn't accept (instead of 200 and the "no
success" message in the body
of the reply) attempts to trackback were reduced.

Regards,

Sascha

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