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July 05, 2005

Trackbacks Off Temporarily

I've been forced to disable trackbacks temporarily; the spam has been so bad this past hour that Fluffy the Spam Watchdog couldn't keep up. 71 trackbacks in ten seconds after I turned it on. That uses up all the system's memory and it grinds to a halt.

Oh great, comment spam coming in. Back in a tick.

Okay, it looks like that all got blocked. Take a look at the activity log if you like. I cleared it out about twelve hours ago, so it only has about 4000 entries in it so far.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:37 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 How do I see the activity log?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at July 05, 2005 09:15 PM

2 David, go to the main menu (the page where it lists all the blogs you have access to) and right under "Edit your profile" it says "view activity log"...

Posted by: Susie @ at July 06, 2005 01:15 AM

3 Pixy, would the automatic closing of trackback after say one month deal with this problem?

Posted by: Simon @ at July 06, 2005 02:45 AM

4 It would help, but I don't know if it would cure it completely.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 06, 2005 05:33 AM

5 I have a standing rule:

Any spam that makes it past Pixy's valiant efforts is deleted* instantly and trackbacks and comments to that post are closed.

Never let them get the same post twice.

I'm guessing about 1/3 of my old posts are closed. If it were not for Pixy's heroism in the great spam war, I'm sure I'd have done them all by now.

*with the exception of having saved my first ever spam comment.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at July 07, 2005 12:22 AM

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