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June 14, 2006

Trackback spam

Can trackbacks on the edit page where the "5 most recent pings" are recorded be configured to take us to the appropriat post rather than as a link to the site of the spammer. That way, we could do our own blacklist perhaps on our sites based on the ping and/or delete the ping from the post in question.

Posted by: GM Roper at 06:22 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 If that can't be changed, there is still a relatively painless way to do it: the title of the post that got pinged is in the email notification, so just use the MT search thingy to find the post, delete the offending TB and re-save the post (which also rebuilds it) and kills the evil spam.

Posted by: caltechgirl @ at June 14, 2006 07:18 PM

2 great idea, however, my trackback emails are not reaching me (gmroper@gmroper.mu.nu) for some reason I will look in "old" posts for dates and see if I can find them. Thanks again...

Posted by: GM Roper @ at June 15, 2006 12:01 AM

3 This is really easy to do - in Minx.

Hang on a couple more weeks and you'll have it all, baby!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at June 15, 2006 01:41 AM

4 And of course, the version of Minx we'll be using initially, Minx/MT, is fully compatible with Movable Type, so the minute I get the new trackback view working you can start using just that bit, even if the rest of Minx isn't ready yet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at June 15, 2006 01:42 AM

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