Trackbacks are turned off temporarily.
Posted by Pixy Misa at September 20, 2005 08:16 PM | TrackBackAnd now they've been killed again due to spam.
La la la...
Posted by Pixy Misa at September 21, 2005 02:20 AMSlighly off-topic, but I cannot seem to locate the discussion on this: turning off comments/trackbacks after a month or so.
Can it be done utilizing Munuvian technology?
The suck side to working on a U.S. Navy base is that I cannot access my MuNu e-mail which notifys me of trackbacks - specifically, that crap that appears in the middle of the night that would take me several hours of hunting to locate without the e-mail notification.
Can it be done and if so, how? I'm thinking that comments/trackbacks should be killed after 30 days....
Hugs & Kisses,
Mikey
Well, we did that, and it didn't work. There appears to be a bug somewhere. 
Mikey:
Can you access the admin page of your blog from on base?
If so, you can use a feature of the Blacklist to quickly check for and remove spam trackbacks in one go.
Go to http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt-blacklist.cgi after you are signed in.
Click on the DeSpam link at the top of the page, then use the radio buttons and drop-down list to tell Blacklist that you want to see the X most recent trackbacks on your blog. (You can also list comments the same way.)
Normally, this is used to find comments or TBs containing a particular spam word or regexp, but the 3rd option will give you a listing of all comments/TB's (up to the quantity you specified), with info about the commenter, Ip address, URL etc., along with a checkbox to select if you want to easily delete specific comments.
Just search for the last 50 or 100 tb's, and uncheck the real ones, then click the remove & rebuild relevant entries button, and you're done.
Blacklist will also give you a list of the URL's it found in the trackbacks, and ask if you want to add them to the blacklist. Unless you're really comfortable with what problems to look for before blacklisting, I'd say hold off on adding any strings. I'm still trying to find time to write up a tutorial on what to watch out for when using the Blacklist, but until then, just use it to check & clean for yourself.
Paul
Or to put it another way, RAID is good for hardware bugs, but does nothing against software bugs. 
