I just checked out the Activity Log for my blog. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the MT-Blacklist module that I installed back in February has been doing its job. The bad news is that in that time it has detected and blocked 5,109 trackbacks and 854 comments. (In the last 30 days alone, it's nailed 1,012 and 60 respectively.) Just think about the bandwidth involved, and then remember all of the unprotected blogs out there....
Posted by geoff2 at May 24, 2005 11:24 PMthankfully our bandwidth isn't too costly, and is well within our 95% percentile. :-)
Posted by: steve at May 25, 2005 12:41 AMI was also surprised at the number of different
spammers and types of attacks out there when I ran into the site http://spamhuntress.com/.
Others have combatted the bandwidth issue by playing with their .htaccess files. Tom Raferty has an article on doing this at http://www.tomrafteryit.net/blocking-trackback-spam-using-htaccess/.