Had the first successful trackback spam here in quite some time today. Not entirely certain what they did to spoof past all the various filters and the like (and loosening up the throttling probably helped them), but I cleaned it out nice and quick, and have further tweaked things to moderate all trackback that gets through the filters (which means if you trackback something here there will be a delay before it’s published, sorry).
For the record, I show 12,303 junked trackbacks since I installed MT3 (I have over 500 accepted and legit trackbacks for this blog). Almost enough to make me want to turn off the trackback system, but I don’t want to let the bastards get away with it.
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Turned trackbacks off on my site some time ago. Just wasn’t worth it. Of the 23,000+ trackbacks that had been attempted at my site in the previous three months, 2 were legitimate trackbacks worth keeping.
Even though I’ve had trackbacks turned off for several months now I’m still constantly bombarded with trackback attempts despite the fact that there’s no trackback info in any of my entries any longer. It’s part of why I had to switch servers.