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Friday, May 04, 2007 #

Trackback Madness...
I want to turn this blog into a respectable place for my technical thoughts.  Step 1 of that initiative - Get rid of all the trackback spam.

 


A "clean" sampling of my trackbacks.

Almost all of my old posts have a few hundred spam trackback links.  It's absolutely ridiculous.  Dasblog has a referral blacklist feature that I'm looking into.  Unfortunately, their documentation is a little out of date.  It refers to an older blacklisting feature called "Moveable Type Blacklist".  I believe 1.7 was the last version this feature was available (I'm running 1.9).

Some light googling gave me some direction on how to enable and configure it.  It's a keyword based filter that will send 404's if a site that matches one of your specified keywords tries to refer back to you.  Making up the keyword list should be fun. 

Omar Shahine's WebLog

In the meantime, I created a PowerShell script to remove all trackbacks from my content files.  I'll post that when I get home tonight.  But until I get the blacklist feature figured out, I'll be leaving trackbacks turned off.
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