I am getting over 100 spam pings everyday. Adding the domain names into my spam database, deleting the pings and rebuilding my site, then deleting the notification emails are mechanical, and althou it only takes a few minutes, this is totally unproductive and certainly not fun.
There is no easy way to turn trackback off and rebuild the whole site. So I changed the templates and rebuild, then I changed the permission of the trackback script so it isn’t readable by the webserver.
Yet another example of low life spammers abusing a useful technology.
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1 ergoi // Nov 16, 2005 at 11:55 pm
yeah more and more i see people turning off trackback, and honestly its damn annoying to have spam trackbacks and spam pingbacks, not to mention spammy referrers.
oh well… i guess we’ll have to stick to icerocket et al to figure out who is linking to who…
even that can be spammed, but its harder than spamming track/ping-backs.