Trackback Spam
Posted by matijs
The less said about it the better. I just blocked three IP ranges completely. I don’t really like to take these kinds of measures, for two reasons:
- I don’t want to block legitimate access to my web site.
- I don’t want to spend my days adjusting my firewall, adding rules whenever new spam seeps through the cracks.
Since I was spending my days cleaning up trackback spam, reason #2 stopped applying. There also didn’t seem to be any legitimate access from the blocks in question.
Damn Spam has more details on these particular spammers. You can see they’ve been at it for a while now.
Before, I only blocked one IP address. It was from a company called Webrescuer with a very impolite bot. Aparrently, being impolite wasn’t a very good business model, as they seem to be gone now. I removed the block.
