This morning, starting just after midnight Eastern, somebody started spraying trackback pings at my blog - about 150 so far, still going. A few weeks ago, while tweaking the template for the front page, I'd added a list of the last five trackbacks. I just got rid of that, so now (as far as I can see) there's no trace of the spammer's sites or addresses anywhere on geoffarnold.com. Hopefully this will persuade the bots to ignore me as an unprofitable target.....
[UPDATE: 2/3/05] Another burst of 50-60 pings this morning (on top of the 250 in this current plague) provoked me into doing what I should have done all along: install Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist. It was amazingly easy. No excuses.....
Posted by geoff2 at February 1, 2005 08:07 AMThere is a weird trackback on your feeling fated post.
Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at February 2, 2005 04:20 PMMore trackback stuff on one of your snow picture posts. Maybe it's new?
Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at February 2, 2005 06:30 PMThanks. I've now deleted any visible sign of trackbacks from the site. I can still accept them (and see them through the admin interface) but they won't affect anything.
Posted by: Geoff Arnold at February 3, 2005 12:07 AM