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August 6, 2005

Web Site News - Hosting Matters, Trackback Spam

by Ferdinand T Cat

As you may have read earlier, our old Presence Provider Lunarpages got upset with us because we were hit by a massive trackback spam attack. The first time this happened, Bruce used a thing called an Anti-Spam Rename Tool to fix the problem. This worked great until a few days ago, when the spammers figured out a counter-measure. Within days, they flooded us to the point Lunarpages decided it had had enough.

So, we are now with a new provider, Hosting Matters, and we have a new anti-spam solution. As a result, all of our trackback URLs have changed again. It is our hope that this keeps the spammers at bay for a lot longer than the last effort.

Regular programming will resume again on Monday.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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It must have been one of those perverted dog people.


Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at August 6, 2005 7:40 AM

You'll love Hosting Matters. I've been with them for over a year, and each time I've had a problem, they've solved it within an hour or so.

Great company. Great people.


Posted by: Nick at August 6, 2005 4:10 PM

Hey, it's Tom. I wrote that rename tool. It was useful at the time, but now I use something that's wayyy cooler and more powerful: SpamLookup. Go get it!

http://bradchoate.com/projects/spamlookup/


Posted by: tom sherman [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2005 7:28 PM

I have to say, while your tool worked it was positively wonderful.

We are using SpamLookup for comment spam, but Bruce has been unable to make it thread the needle for trackback spam, so we're using another sneaky trick. Hopefully, it will last as long as the previous sneaky trick for comments, that held for over 8 months before the swine figured it out.


Posted by: Ferdy [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2005 9:39 PM

Feel free to ask me about optimal settings in SpamLookup if you're gonna continue with it.


Posted by: tom sherman [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2005 11:51 PM

HTML is not allowed in comments; however, if you put in a raw URL (http://www.somewhere.com/page.html) it will automatically be converted to a link.. Also, it is likely your comment will not appear unless you refresh the page manually after posting it.

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