So, for the last day, or so, I've been getting hit with an occassional (I'm sure the system is stopping much more) trackback spam that has emply links in it, like so:
<a href="">Naturally, this makes it harder to block them by blacklisting their URL. And they are, also naturally, using multiple IP addresses. I've been reluctant to add a blank href to the blacklist, not sure what it might break.
Any ideas?
Posted by EricC at December 3, 2005 10:03 PM | TrackBackBastiches.
Adding a blank href to MT Blacklist may cause problems. Snark, however, has no such problems. 
I've popped that text in the Snark global blacklist, and we'll see how it goes.
By the way:
Total 264917, Good 704, Bad 264167, % Spam 99.72
In less than a week.
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 4, 2005 01:59 AMSorry, I goofed. I was typing fast and not really thinking about it as I did. Had to get going to a Christmas party, which I just got back from (lots o' fun). It was comment spam, not trackback. I'm fairly sure the empty href will cause a problem with blacklist. The best way to stop it would be with a tool like the Bad Behavior plugin for WP, which looks at the client headers.
Posted by Eric at December 4, 2005 08:49 AMP.S. Pixy, I got another 19 of these stupid things in the past 6 or 7 hours.
Posted by Eric at December 4, 2005 08:50 AMWell poot. Snark doesn't do comment spam, at least not yet.
I may be able to do something. We could even try putting it in MT Blacklist and see what happens...
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 4, 2005 11:30 AMI didn't get any of the stupid things overnight. Did you add the blank href to Blacklist?
Posted by Eric at December 4, 2005 04:53 PM