Well, the crap’s been hittin’ the fan hard lately. Spammers have taken to a new trick: using trackback pings.
I’ve installed a couple plugins that are supposed to put all trackbacks and pingbacks (I had no idea there was a difference until about 5 minutes ago — remind me to look that up later) into my moderation queue. I get so few (read: zero) real trackbacks that I’m not too worried about making legitimate people wait a few hours.
If you’re interested, you can find the plugins I’m using at “MtDewVirus”:http://mtdewvirus.com/archives/2005/01/06/wordpress-plugins-trackback-and-pingback-moderation/.
Die evil spammers, die!
Am I responsible for this article? I mean, I told you about comment spam on your “Interpolation Sidebar” post.
Oops, I meant “TrackBack spam”.
Uh, no, you did not bring the problem to my attention. I’ve had about 15 trackback spams since sometime last week. They’ve been coming in one at a time and I’ve been deleting them before anyone sees them. The one you pointed out was about the tenth in the series.
I suppose in a way you did prompt me to finally do something about it, since you were the first of my readers to submit a complaint.
I do appreciate the heads-up, though. I’m glad someone out there cares about my problems.