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 July 21, 2006 02:30 PM | TrackBackWould it be possible to make the trackback URL completely unpredictable?
Posted by David Boxenhorn at July 21, 2006 03:55 PMGiven 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 AMTruth 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 AMWell, 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.
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