{"id":12009,"date":"2007-12-14T06:22:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/14\/spam-spam-spam-spam-19.html"},"modified":"2007-12-14T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:22:40","slug":"spam_spam_spam_spam_19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/spam_spam_spam_spam_19.html","title":{"rendered":"Spam, spam, spam, spam &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spam, spam, spam, spam ...\" height=\"104\" alt=\"spam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/spam.jpg\" width=\"104\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>The trackback spammers here have been been getting more persistent, and, of course, sneakier.&nbsp; I still get all the typical pharmaceutical ones (though even those are getting more varied), but I&#8217;m also getting a lot more with random text blocks for everything other than the link itself (and the site names isn&#8217;t anything immediately, obviously evil, and aren&#8217;t immediately blacklisted).<\/p>\n<p>I now actually watch all the TB messages that come up, and am hopping on things relatively fast.&nbsp; I still don&#8217;t want to disable the facility, since I extensively make use of it for my own internal cross-referencing (and enjoy the occasional legit TB from someone), but I may have to move it all to moderation.&nbsp; Bleah.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to expand the blacklist resources that MT&#8217;s SpamLookup uses.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsitpro.com\/Articles\/ArticleID\/49553\/49553.html?Ad=1\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> suggests a few.&nbsp; Ah, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/important-update-to-your-spam.html\" target=\"_blank\">this MT article<\/a> notes that one of the default blacklisters MT was using is no longer available (which was probably&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lightanddark.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/problem_with_mo.html\" target=\"_blank\">slowing down<\/a> comment and trackback posting)&nbsp;and suggests an alternative (though that seems <a href=\"http:\/\/padawan.info\/2007\/06\/is-zenspamhauso.html\" target=\"_blank\">problematic<\/a>, and it&#8217;s important, for performance reasons, not to overdo the blacklist lookups).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how that works.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trackback spammers here have been been getting more persistent, and, of course, sneakier.&nbsp; I still get all the typical pharmaceutical ones (though even those are getting more varied),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8003,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/comment_spam_up.html","url_meta":{"origin":12009,"position":0},"title":"Comment spam update","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Jul-05 9:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"And since we're talking about freedom of expression, let's chat about spam. 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