A lifelog of a well-travelled single parent who had a life extension in 2000, blogs indiscriminately about her journey through life fulfilling unfinished business and promises that will soon complete her existence...

::TrackBack Spamming

Monday, March 28, 2005

More and more spammers are using this Movable Type's TrackBack pings to get into my blog for traffic. Since two weeks ago, my MT-Blacklist reached the maximum allowed packet size and I had difficulty adding more sites to block. I kept receiving "Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'" errors when I wanted to delete both unwanted comments and trackback pings.

I logged a support ticket with PlogHost, my webhosting specialist, on this matter but, I got this reply from them: "The MT-Blacklist has reached it's maximum capacity size. I believe it's an inherent limitation of the script. You may need to upgrade it or request support from the developers."

Thanks to Jay Allen for providing this MT-Blacklist special instructions for deleting trackback spam pings.. While its true that everything in this world has limitations, I found a way to delete also some fake URLS in MT-Blacklist text and replaced identical domain names into keywords before removing them off my list. Should you encounter a hard time leaving a comment, chances are, some words in your message might be in my hot keywords. Pardon me for this inconvenience but, blame the spammers for these strict measures I have to implement.


Posted on March 28, 2005 01:52 AM


butterfly Let me know you were here, your thoughts are welcome!

You mean you don't play BS anymore? Hmm...


Posted by: Afonso on April 1, 2005 01:20 AM

Well... I'm not sure who is currently addicted on BS.

As far as I know, Randy and I are busy with our virtual pets and been playing Plushie Tyccon and other Neopian games...


Posted by: Laila* on March 30, 2005 12:59 AM

Reading now...Hmm, this reminds me that I should write a 12 step recovery plan for Blogshares addicts...Do you know anyone to whom it would be useful? hehe


Posted by: Afonso on March 30, 2005 12:36 AM

Hey, Afonso! did you read the web addicts post?


Posted by: Laila* on March 29, 2005 05:48 PM

Hi Laila, hope all is well with you, and that you had a happy Easter. Thanks for the beautiful card.

Hugs,

Afonso :)


Posted by: Afonso on March 28, 2005 05:54 AM


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