Comments on: Spam: the bottom line http://www.monashreport.com/2006/05/02/spam-the-bottom-line/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Curt Monash http://www.monashreport.com/2006/05/02/spam-the-bottom-line/#comment-3978 Curt Monash Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:59:01 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/05/02/spam-the-bottom-line/#comment-3978 Oops. Akismet, ironically, gave me a false positive on your post. I just dug it out of the spam listing. Anyhow, I found that I needed to manually disable trackbacks on a few posts, and that cut my volume of incoming spam wayyyyy down. Contrary to your experience, I find that Akismet DOES pick up my trackback spam. Still, I went through the exercise of figuring out which posts the spam was concentrated on, and turning off their trackbacks, and now my spam is down by a huge factor (probably over 90%). Oops. Akismet, ironically, gave me a false positive on your post. I just dug it out of the spam listing.

Anyhow, I found that I needed to manually disable trackbacks on a few posts, and that cut my volume of incoming spam wayyyyy down.

Contrary to your experience, I find that Akismet DOES pick up my trackback spam. Still, I went through the exercise of figuring out which posts the spam was concentrated on, and turning off their trackbacks, and now my spam is down by a huge factor (probably over 90%).

]]> By: Cade http://www.monashreport.com/2006/05/02/spam-the-bottom-line/#comment-3926 Cade Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:57:21 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/05/02/spam-the-bottom-line/#comment-3926 WordPress Trackback Spam!!! I have installed plugins that prevent comment spams, but this won't prevent trackback to be blocked. I've been spam by many MFA websites that most probably is from the same network with trackback, but they are not linking me on their website. May I know how do they do it and how do I stop it? Without disabling trackback? Thanks, and I'm using WordPress. WordPress Trackback Spam!!!
I have installed plugins that prevent comment spams, but this won't prevent trackback to be blocked. I've been spam by many
MFA websites that most probably is from the same network with trackback, but they are not linking me on their website. May I
know how do they do it and how do I stop it? Without disabling trackback?
Thanks, and I'm using WordPress.

]]> By: David Ferris http://www.monashreport.com/2006/05/02/spam-the-bottom-line/#comment-820 David Ferris Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:08:56 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/05/02/spam-the-bottom-line/#comment-820 Curt, I was wrong about people spending an average of 5 mins/week checking their quarantines. What I should have said is that when people regularly check their quarantines, they typically spend about 5 mins/week doing so. A great many users don't check their quarantines, or only rarely. Your concern was well-placed. david Curt,

I was wrong about people spending an average of 5 mins/week checking their quarantines. What I should have said is that when people regularly check their quarantines, they typically spend about 5 mins/week doing so.

A great many users don’t check their quarantines, or only rarely.

Your concern was well-placed.

david

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