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March 22, 2006
Trackspam solution
Trackspam solution: I'm logging this here to bring it to the attention of others in blogware work... Tom Muck shows a serverside automation which, if implemented by enough people, could have an effect on trackback spam. (I've been having to delete trackspam whenever I return from a break at the keyboard, and that's after the blogs.mm.com automated filters.) Tom writes of automating email to the offending domain owner: "Rather than submit to these parasites or remove trackback functionality, I added functionality that automatically checks every link in the trackback post, goes out to each linked site, reads the site content, and checks for a reference to the post being trackback linked. If there is no reference to the post, the trackback is not legitimate. In those cases, I check the whois and grab the information in put it into my database. At that point, I can parse the email addresses of the domain holders and send them an automated bill for their trackback spam and send out an automated email to whoever I think the spam should be reported to." We've also got their realworld address too. Seems like, if enough blog publishing systems have implementations to get a decent mass of blogs enacting it, that we could automate some feedback mechanism to the people responsible for accounts which pollute trackbacks...?
Posted by John Dowdell at March 22, 2006 10:57 PM
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