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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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