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February 07, 2005
Trackback Spam
My apologies to any of you who use my trackbacks - I have been hit by a Spammer who uses the Trackback to attach spurious "comments" to various posts. There were 64 of these parasitic abominations attached this morning and it takes forever to clear them out! The only way we can block these is to turn off the Trackback feature while we explore upgrading this blog to a differnt system or a higher version of MT.
A curse on all spammers - believe it or not - there was another of the damned things in the box tonight!
Anyone who can create a spammer attack programme will get my support!
Posted by The Gray Monk at February 7, 2005 11:11 PM
Comments
I empathize with you, having just endured the same this past week. After deleting and banning IP addresses for a number of days, I finally caved in and simply deleted the mt- tb.cgi file for my blog.
Posted by: Cindy at February 8, 2005 04:05 AM
Thanks Cindy, is there comfort in joint affliction?
May the fleas of a thousand desert camels infest the most delicate regions of the Spammer's anatomy - and their fingers turn to fish hooks!
Posted by: The Gray Monk at February 8, 2005 10:02 AM