http://www.richardrousseau.com/category/5.aspx DasBlog en-US Richard Rousseau blog@richardrousseau.com Subtext Version 1.9.5.177 http://richardrousseau.com/archive/2007/05/04/trackback-madness.aspx <font size="2">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. </font><br /> <p> </p> <img height="164" width="521" border="0" alt="" src="/images/richardrousseau_com/trackbacks.gif" /><br /> <div align="center"><font size="1"><strong>A "clean" sampling of my trackbacks.<br /> <br /> </strong></font> <div align="left"><font size="2"><br /> 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  Unfortunately, their documentation is a little out of date.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).<br /> <br /> 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.  <br /> <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2005/01/22/358554.aspx"><br /> Omar Shahine's WebLog</a><br /> <br /> 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.<br /> </font></div> </div><img src="http://richardrousseau.com/aggbug/5.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Richard Rousseau http://richardrousseau.com/archive/2007/05/04/trackback-madness.aspx Sat, 05 May 2007 01:08:39 GMT http://richardrousseau.com/comments/5.aspx http://richardrousseau.com/archive/2007/05/04/trackback-madness.aspx#feedback 1 http://richardrousseau.com/comments/commentRss/5.aspx