Is there anything more exasperating than catching trackback spammers in the process of spamming you, and struggling to update your MT Blacklist with the new url’s while the assholes are continuing to add hundreds of trackbacks?
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Jim Treacher
No. That’s exactly why I disabled trackbacks.
Richard Bennett
WordPress has a whole kit of spam-prevention tools, including one that applies the Blacklist to Trackbacks. It’s way better than MT, and I highly recommend it.
The Lonewacko Blog
WP also publishes everything dynamically. So, if MySQL or PHP crashes, so does your website. I’ll take static pages unless I had 24/7 monitoring. I looked into a “rebuild” function for WP, but it appears that I’d be fighting against their conceptual design. Nevertheless I might write something like that.
As far as deleting spam comments, see Keeping spam under control with MovableType. You’ll need to be able to log into MySQL to use that. I might publish more sample commands at a later date.
Dale Franks
That’s why I created anti-spam and simple, instant blacklisting in .Blog.
Kathy K
Quick fix when you catch them at it. Rename mt-tb.cgi to something like mt-tb.cgi.txt… then do the blackslist stuff, and rename it back.
RW
Good.
No rebuilding, which sucks.
Well, if anything importatnt crashes, so does your website. IF your MT databases crsh, so does your website. If your MT blacklist isn’t updated & you get mega-spammed, your site crashes.
Backup, backup, backup and then maintain.
It’s much better than MT, IMO, if for no other reason than the rebuilding process. But, that’s my opinion, worth what you paid for it. I can see why some would prefer static…..not me.
The Lonewacko Blog
If MySQL crashes, my static pages will continue to be served. The only app I’m relying on (AFAIK) is Apache (plus, of course, the daemons, OS, etc.)
Max
It isn’t perfect, but Haloscan kills spam dead dead dead. Saves a bunch of time.
S.W. Anderson
Comment and trackback spammers
bago
If you were running an ISAPI filter on your webserver to deny the traffic patterns you are seeing you’d be greatly helped.
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