Trackback spam

Am I the only one receiving more that 100 trackback spams a
day ?
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(Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:41:22PM +0000) Pupeno
wrote/schrieb/egrapse:
> Am I the only one receiving more that 100 trackback
spams a day ?

I see a lot of activity for trackback spam here lately.
Currently I have
set my trackbacks to moderated because of that. I am
blocking at the
firewall a lot of IPs that I've seen sending
trackback/comment spam and
that are known IP blocks of spammers. I also block what I
presume are
stealth bots who look for trackback/comment spam
opportunities.
I'm also blocking some User Agent Strings in apache. With
all of that
I'm down to about 1 - 5 trackback spams a day. But it's a
stupid game.

It's much easier to fight against comment spam: one can
filter on
content, use captchas (not to my liking), use simple
measures like
requiring "Preview" (in latest COREBlog
release), they get rid of a lot
of comment spam. But trackback is harder, because it's
*meant* to be
automated. As far as I have found, the only plugin to deal
with that is
one that looks up the page that does the trackback - it
tries to find if
there is really a link to you and flags the trackback as
spam otherwise.

Sadly there seems to be a trend to switch off trackback
completely.
As first measure I would suggest switching on moderation for
trackback.

Regards,

Sascha

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On Friday, 2 de June de 2006 11:12, Sascha Welter wrote:
> switching on moderation for trackback.
I am already doing that, since day 0, but I'll still get
the mail and I have 
to clean my server periodically, carefull of not deleting
real trackbacks.
Anyway, I think I'll turn it off; untill coreblog has
captchas for it. I am 
happy with that solution (I think).
Thank you.
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Pupeno(e)k dio:
> Am I the only one receiving more that 100 trackback
spams a day ?
> 

No, we are also receiving a lot of spam in our COREBlog
communities, but
we have some scripts to do the "bad job" of
deleting this spam.

You can also close the tracbacks in your post to avoid spam.

Regards,

Mikel

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Pupeņo wrote:

>> switching on moderation for trackback.
>
> I am already doing that, since day 0, but I'll still
get the mail and I have
> to clean my server periodically, carefull of not
deleting real trackbacks.
> Anyway, I think I'll turn it off; untill coreblog has
captchas for it. I am
> happy with that solution (I think).

How could captchas ever be a solution for trackbacks?  For
comments,
yes, but trackbacks?  Or do I misunderstand you?

Cheers,

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On Friday, 2 de June de 2006 13:36, Klaus Alexander Seistrup
wrote:
> How could captchas ever be a solution for trackbacks?
 For comments,
> yes, but trackbacks?  Or do I misunderstand you?

No, I forgot what trackbacks were about for a second.
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On Friday, 2 de June de 2006 06:34, Mikel Larreategi wrote:
> Pupeno(e)k dio:
> > Am I the only one receiving more that 100
trackback spams a day ?
>
> No, we are also receiving a lot of spam in our COREBlog
communities, but
> we have some scripts to do the "bad job" of
deleting this spam.
>
> You can also close the tracbacks in your post to avoid
spam.

Can you share does scripts ? Are they for coreblog ?
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2006/6/1, Pupeno <pupenopupeno.com>:
> Am I the only one receiving more that 100 trackback
spams a day ?
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> Pupeno <pupenopupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com)

I receive about 10 fake trackbaks for one of my entries.
Fortunately,
spam-bots seem to ingore other entries at my blog.

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Pupeno(e)k dio:
> On Friday, 2 de June de 2006 06:34, Mikel Larreategi
wrote:
>> Pupeno(e)k dio:
>>> Am I the only one receiving more that 100
trackback spams a day ?
>> No, we are also receiving a lot of spam in our
COREBlog communities, but
>> we have some scripts to do the "bad
job" of deleting this spam.
>>
>> You can also close the tracbacks in your post to
avoid spam.
> 
> Can you share does scripts ? Are they for coreblog ?

Those scripts were already discussed here, you'll find a
reference here:
http://www
.eibar.org/blogak/luistxo/en/298

We just adapted those scripts with some common spamwords
(viagra,
casino, ...) to check them automatically instead of calling
the script
each time with a new keyword.


Regards,

Mikel

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