http://yardley.ca/2005/08/27/trackbacks-arent-dead/ greg yardley on online product management Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://yardley.ca/2005/08/27/trackbacks-arent-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Marco Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:28:08 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=123#comment-237 I must say I've been unpleasantly surprised by how many bloggers just give up trackback so easily because of the spammers. Blogs belong to the bloggers. The motto of my anti-spam package for Pivot reads 'Take back your blog!' and I for one intend to do so. It turned out to be not so hard to kill trackback spam after all. No CPU intensive (bayesian) scanning is necessary at all. Currently I'm simply using some javascript to fool the spammer and if they ever become clever enough to interpret my javascript, execute it and spam me anyway I'll simply modify it and add a small trivial 'check question' visitors have to answer in order to obtain a trackback key. Simple and impossible to crack. It's time we start re-animating trackback before it's really dead. I must say I’ve been unpleasantly surprised by how many bloggers just give up trackback so easily because of the spammers. Blogs belong to the bloggers. The motto of my anti-spam package for Pivot reads ‘Take back your blog!’ and I for one intend to do so. It turned out to be not so hard to kill trackback spam after all. No CPU intensive (bayesian) scanning is necessary at all. Currently I’m simply using some javascript to fool the spammer and if they ever become clever enough to interpret my javascript, execute it and spam me anyway I’ll simply modify it and add a small trivial ‘check question’ visitors have to answer in order to obtain a trackback key. Simple and impossible to crack. It’s time we start re-animating trackback before it’s really dead.

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