What were you expecting from an article about spam ?
Brand new plugins/modules to download for free ?
Unfortunately I’m not a programmer.
Instead of that, I introduced 3 new methods that are not yet implemented in any software I’m aware of.
You might already know the encrypted code and the IP address method because I already posted about hem.
But it’s the first time I write something about a pre-authenticated method.
If you knew all this then ok, but that’s not the case of everyone.
If you believe all the web surfers do have the same knowledge, well, stop blogging right away.

I couldn’t send a successful trackback to that entry so I posted an equivalent comment.
Actually your comment to mine is useless and uninformative to your entry.
You have decided to take your opinion public rather then sending me a private eMail,
forcing me to also publicly respond.
And I’ll laugh at you as soon as one of these methods will be implemented somewhere.

Well, Bobby, that has to be the single most uninformative article I’ve read in a long time. It must have taken you all of five minutes to whip up. It makes your comment feel more like spam than an attempt to help people out by pointing them to an article that actually deals with the issue it claims to.

Hi, readers might be interested by that article :
Anti Trackback and Comment Spam Methods

If they don’t already know, I’m sure DISA would appreciate a heads up that this is going on. DISA Contact  ‘Do not be afraid. We are with the government, we are here to help.’  Hmm…better send it through anonymizer so you don’t end up in a homeland security database somewhere.  Have a great Fourth of July!

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I haven’t been hit by “trackbacks”, just referral spam. I suppose I should go ahead and get the code, just incase…

Looks like all requests for the updated trackback code will have to go through Paul. So Dave M, if you want to get ahold of the modified code ahead of time go drop Paul an email and he’ll send it out.

Oh, my mistake.

OK, Paul has gotten me the latest version of the trackback code that adds the delete link and the cross-reference to the blacklist. He’s tested it and it appears to work properly. He’s offering to mail it to anyone who wants it right away and asks in the next couple of hours (as he’s about to head out for awhile). You can email him via the pMachine forums at this link. I suspect you can email him through his webpage as well, but I don’t know if their both using the same email address.

I’ve asked if it would be alright for me to send the file out if folks ask for it, but haven’t gotten an answer yet so for the time being just drop him an email if you need it. I suspect we’ll see this in the next update to the script in the not too distant future.

I know about the blacklist. I’ve been reporting the sparatic spams I usually get to the blacklist e-mail address. I was referring to the new hits that everyone else has been getting.

I was wondering if the MovableType sites were getting hit as well. I’ll have to check the folks I set up under MT and see how they’re faring. They’re still under 2.661 so the MT Blacklist should still be working for them.

Dave, EE does have a Referrer Blacklist built into it already that you can add URls to in order to prevent them showing up in your referrer log. Sounds like that may become an overall blacklist for EE at this point.

Richy, I’m not at home at the moment and until just recently EE didn’t list IP addresses in the emails so the early numbers are lost to me. I can give you what I’ve gotten today in the way of IPs once I get home and have access to the emails I trashed. It’ll be sometime later tonight.

Neil got hit as well and so did I.

What IP addresses hit you Les? I’ve kinda made a big list of IPs to block and it’ll be helpful if I could add the IP’s that hit you to the list as well.