Trackbacks are SPAM bait
November 20th, 2005I’ve been deluged recently with bogus trackbacks on this blog and I’m really fed up. Unfortunately this version of BBlog doesn’t give you the option of manually approving trackback responses like it does for comments so spammers are able to post their links on the site automatically. I do get an email notification of trackbacks but these messages always get caught in my spam inbox because the names of the sites contain viagra, cialis, etc. in them. There must be a better solution!
The best I could come up with is to turn off the appearance of trackbacks on my blog. So essentially the trackback URL still works and trackbacks are still added to my database but they aren’t displayed on the site. This is pretty annoying for legitimate trackbacks since their link won’t appear but I honestly don’t know what else to do. Yet another important technology rendered useless by the spammers…
