I’ve been encountering a chunk of trackback spam recently [Learn about trackbacks], all coming from the same source. Now the blog publishing platform I’m using — Blogware from Tucows — has a nice little feature to block comment spam after the fact. Essentially, Blogware blog administrators can ‘ban’ any comments originating from a blacklist of IP addresses. The blog admin has control over the IP blacklist.
There is no such ability, though, to control trackback spam via an IP blacklist or some other such device.
The Tucows guys are working on something to control trackback spam but, in the meantime, I’m going to try to control trackback spam on an ad hoc basis. I’ve noticed that the trackback spammers keep linking to the same posts at this blog. So what I’ve done is disable the trackback functionality on those posts.
From time to time, I may disable trackback-ability on other posts. If you find it the trackback disabled, I encourage you in the meantime, to use the comments section and put a link to your site in that comment section. The comments section takes HTML, incidentally.