I'm disappointed in the trackback spammer that stopped by early this morning. He managed to get a few through, but like most days, I was sitting here when the emails started arriving, and I immediately flagged him. He hasn't bothered coming back. I hope that he hasn't attacked one of the many friends' sites I link to who are possibly not as well guarded against trackback spam as here.
Hey! Come back! I've got some additional algorithms I want to test!
I got a few, but my filter seemed to catch them all. However I did have ten comments in moderation, which they shouldn't have been there in the firts place, but deleted. Then at almost-there, I think one bad comment got through - I have no idea how though... my filter musta been sleeping on that one.
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Final filter result: 0
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So that's where he came from -- how do you filter trackbacks? It is ironic as I was wondering when spammers would start doing this and how practical it would be.
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Final filter result: 0
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D'oh! Sorry!
I'm using my own blend of spam-killing solvents to filter the trackbacks. Using spam for trackbacks is pretty practical for spammers. WordPress doesn't really defend well against it. Pingbacks, a WordPress invention, are a bit more secure.
Hey, are you guys getting little "OSA" messages in your subscription emails? If so, that's just the impetus I need to rewrite Jen's subscribe to comments thingie. It's been bugging me for a while now. Every time I need to update the database for a plugin it fails because of how the comment subscription thing includes the database admin routines. Gah!
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Approved WordPress User Level: 10
Final filter result: 10
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Hah! All your fault! ;-) I got something like 30 comment, trackback, and Spaminator notifications this morning (in the course of several hours), and when I logged on to the Edit screen, there were even more comments waiting for approval.
The strange thing is, I got the trackback notifications, but when I went to the posts, I didn't see any of them. Do you have any idea how that would happen? I'm feeling kind of paranoid about those "ghost" trackbacks.
Care to share your anti-spam magic? :-)
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Final filter result: 0
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I don't know what Spaminator does with trackback spams that it can't block the notification, too. I'm sure there's a technical reason related to WP version 1.2.x, but I don't know it offhand.
My OSA plugin is developing nicely, but I can't release it yet. There are a couple of "nuance"-things missing, and I want to make sure that it's working well before other people mess with it. Also, it's WP 1.5-only. But I am really anxious to share it because due to the distributed blacklists, the more people that use it, the better it gets! :)
-- OSA:
Approved WordPress User Level: 10
Final filter result: 10
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