BlogCFC Trackback Spam List Exposed!
(Ok, forgive the title for sounding like an Enquirer title.) I was speaking to Forta this morning, and he suggested I make a way to share my TB spam list. I tend to get hit daily with 4-5 TB spams, and I update my online list daily to help fight it. If you want to use my list, you can now copy it from this url:
http://ray.camdenfamily.com/tbspam.cfm
I'm not making it hot since I don't want spiders to hit it. Also, I guess it is possible for a spammer to use the list to figure out how to get around my blocks, but let's be honest, most spammers are complete idiots along with being the scum of the earth.
This list is 100% dynamic, so you can check it weekly to get the latest version. (Or daily if you want.) You will also notice a bit of redundancy. I plan on "cleaning" the list before the next official release.
Lastly, there are some bad words in the list. We are all adults here, but I wanted to warn folks in case they are behind a strict firewall.
Comments
Is Chuck Norris in this TB list? - You would have to be a gamer to get this.
Thanks for this ray...i've been getting killed with tb spam lately...
Make sure you have the latest build. It had some additional spam blocking code.
i figured out the BEST WAY to do this... disabled trackbacks :)since i cannot figure out what they do or why i would want them, i just killed them.
ray, what are they for anyway?
A TB is simply a way of saying, "Hey, I wrote about your blog entry, and here is my entry."
I wanted to let our users upload images easily to the blog, so i just used the existing enclosure option Ray built, and i added the following code the index.cfm file, around line 217, right at the end of the part where it displays the blog body:<!--- added 3/28/2006 by jeff gladnick; this will display the enclosure at the bottom of the blog entry as an image if the enclosure is a jpg/gif/png --->
<cfif len(enclosure)>
<cfif Right(urlEncodedFormat(getFileFromPath(enclosure)), 3) EQ "jpg" OR Right(urlEncodedFormat(getFileFromPath(enclosure)), 3) EQ "gif" OR Right(urlEncodedFormat(getFileFromPath(enclosure)), 3) EQ "PNG">
<img src="#application.rooturl#/enclosures/#urlEncodedFormat(getFileFromPath(enclosure))#">
</cfif>
</cfif>
That is just a simple check to see what the file extension is, and if its a jpg/gif/png, it will display it right after the blog message.
If you're interested in using another way in fighting spam, look at 'Distributed approaches' in the 'Comment spam' on Wikipedia. LinkSleeve.org and Akismet.com are names appearing there. Akismet is AFAIR free for open source tools.LinkSleeve is free. I wrote a small CFC to communicate with it. If you'd like to do something with the CFC I wrote, send me a message.