Been getting a fair amount of spam here which seems more designed to test or overload spam defenses than actually do anything. It’s all made up of single links to something like “http://www.google.com/search?q=fgfrfpjq” and other nonsense terms. Clicking through the searches lead to no such string being found in Google.
If the trackbacks aren’t coming off of blacklisted sites, there aren’t a lot of options, short of turning off trackbacks (which I decline to do) or banning google.com references from trackbacks (possible, but I need to think of the implications). Or, of course, being diligent in checking trackbacks.
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Yep, same here but mine are intermittent and not constant. A lont one day and none for a few days.
Makes sense, since it’s the same installation. If you ever decide you want TBs turned off on your blog, BD, let me know.
The SpamLookup facility in MT doesn’t differentiate between Comments and Feedback, so I’m reluctant to just junk google.com TBs. I could put the string into the moderate queue — I don’t think I get a lot of comments linking to Google — and moderate trackbacks get junked, I believe.
Actually, moderated trackbacks go into a pending queue. I’ve gone ahead and done this (putting “google.com” into the moderated words list), and it’s working quite nicely to block these from the page, with the minor annoyance of having to clean out the moderated queue periodically.
Heh. Amusingly, that comment got moderated, because of the string.