{"id":7096,"date":"2004-10-30T07:48:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T14:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/30\/die-clown-die.html"},"modified":"2004-10-30T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T14:48:48","slug":"die_clown_die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/30\/die_clown_die.html","title":{"rendered":"Die, clown, die!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Came down this morning for a bite to eat before going off to a training session on contemplative discernment. Discerned that someone was in the middle of a trackback ping spam attack on this blog. Ran a couple of them through despamming, deleted the rest — and sat here and watched as additional pings crashed against the blacklist. Hah!<\/em><\/p>\n

My biggest worry is how I’m going to handle that while away on business and vacation. Trackbacks in particular cannot be easily turned off, and MT-Blacklist doesn’t moderate them (for semi-obvious reasons), which creates an annoying window of opportunity.<\/p>\n

Still, though it’s not doing much for contemplative state of mind at the moment, I’m feeling rather satisfied.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Whilst I was gone, dude burned up another six hours of futile additional attempts with the same strings. Again, I say: Hah!<\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Fifteen hours after I initially blocked this guy, and the blacklist log shows his processes still <\/em>splashing against the filters, once every minute or two now. Over five hundred today. Jeez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Came down this morning for a bite to eat before going off to a training session on contemplative discernment. 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