I've gotten a couple of trackback spams loaded to my site. Normally I get notified via email when someone sends me a trackback, which means I can find the post and delete the spam. These didn't send email, and I don't know of a way to hunt them down and delete them.
Any ideas?
Posted by Ted at November 4, 2005 12:19 AMTed, you can use the Blacklist to do this, as long as they weren't posted too long ago.
Just go to the Blacklist and use the dropdowns to tell it to give you trackbacks, then use the radio butttons to tell it to list all (ie NO filtering - it's the bottom radio button). Then tell the Blacklist to search the last 500 or so trackbacks.
You'll get a list of TB's on blogs for which you are administrator. If the search doesn't go back far enough to find what you're looking for, do it again with a higher quantity. As was mentioned earlier, this is searching all of the last TB's on all of MuNu, though only returning the ones related to your blog. That's why the search number needs to be so high,
Once you've got the search results, just uncheck all but the offending TB's, and tell the Blacklist to delete them. If the Blacklist then presents you the URL's to add to the list, be certain that you only add the primary domain, and do not include the subdomain**. Also, don't include any plain text that might come up - only site addresses.
Paul
** The excepion to this is for meta-sites like blogspot.com - there you'll have to use the whole address including the subdomain in order not to clobber all blogspot users.
Posted by Light & Dark at November 4, 2005 12:55 AMThanks, that did the job. I've tried not to mess with blacklist because I don't know what I'm doing and it's too easy to really goof things up.
Posted by Ted at November 4, 2005 01:09 AM