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February 1, 2005
The New Scourge (for me): Trackback Spam
It seems that the evil scum of the planet who have nothing better to do than create comment spam have come up with a NEW way of torturing bloggers: trackback spam.
When another blog references one of my blog entries, they will usually create a trackback (so people can find their way back to the original post). Now, since we've gotten better about locking down comment spam, spammers have decided they'll add trackback spam to muck our blogs.
This is so damned irritating. I'm off to the Movable Type website to see if they have a fix yet.
Comments
i'm experiencing this thing too but apart from the obvious i'm-highly-annoyed rant, i have to say that i feel the same morbid interest for the people/strategy/technology behind the spam industry as i have always done for the virus/antivirus industry. i mean, it keeps freaking me out that they are actual big industries with big money involved. i would love to see michael moore's approach :D
Posted by: Luis Camino at February 7, 2005 12:14 AM