Continuation » spam http://www.mobygeek.net/blog Mateusz Pawłowski aka Joe Seeder puts his dirt on the web Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:52:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Spam is back http://www.mobygeek.net/blog/2007/06/16/spam-is-back/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spam-is-back http://www.mobygeek.net/blog/2007/06/16/spam-is-back/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:45:40 +0000 seeder http://www.mobygeek.net/blog/2007/06/16/spam-is-back/ After introducing recaptcha to my blog, I have enjoyed some time spam free.

They are back, but this time instead of using comments form, they use something what is called Trackback/Pingback.

TB/PB is basically an interface which allows blogs to talk to each other. For example I have blogged about something and some other blogger has wrote a comment on his blog about my post and linked to my post, TB/PB system will then tell my blog about that blogger and send me his post so I can approve it as a comment on my blog.

Easy… but it goes around recaptcha and lands in my for moderation queue … and this is how spam gets to me now…

Fortunately there are some plugins to deal with that kind of spam … but they are not as efficient as recaptcha  … still will have to try

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