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July 21, 2006

WHY TRACKBACKS ARE NOT WORKING

We have received over three four million trackbacks so far this month.

Of which perhaps a thousand are valid.

If anyone wants their trackbacks, I have a six hundred megabyte logfile. They're in there somewhere. I'm happy to email it to you.

As I mentioned below, trackbacks are very likely to remain disabled until Minx supports them. I'll see what Snark can do with the current lot, but I'm not terribly optimistic.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:30 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Would it be possible to make the trackback URL completely unpredictable?

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at July 21, 2006 03:55 PM

2 Given that trackbacks have to work automatically without user intervention, it's really hard to protect them. But yeah, we could do something to block out the stupider spammers.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 22, 2006 02:31 AM

3 Truth is, I don't think I've seen a legitimate trackback in months (well, maybe one or two).

Posted by: Steve Janke @ at July 22, 2006 11:25 AM

4 Well, trackbacks basically haven't been working since late May. During the DDOS attack I accidentally wiped out the trackback spam filter while moving files from one server to the other. It hasn't been the same since.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at July 22, 2006 01:40 PM

5 Again, it seems like a time limit on trackbacks would solve 99% of the problem (just like comments). Most of the spammage seems to come on older posts.

Posted by: Rusty @ at July 22, 2006 08:34 PM

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