Trackback SpamBlocker for .Text

Trackbacks spamming is one of the last big noise on the blogosphere and who regularly reads my blog already knows this (I've talked a lot in the last days about countermeasure I've adopted to stop it).

Brian Delahunty has developed an interesting Trackback SpamBlocker for .Text, a little modification to the engine that permits you to filter trackbacks spamming. The tool seems really good because it's really easy to install (it requires only a modification to the <configSections> section of the web.config file for your .Text and a replacement of the Dottext.Framework.dll file with the one provided) and it's totally customizable (you can add spam filters as you want because the Spam Blocker allows you to use regular expression to determine what is blocked and can work on both the title and the body of the trackbacks).

For the moment I've not installed it (because my SQL filter works really good) but maybe I'll try to add also this protection...

Print | posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:27 PM

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# Re: Trackback SpamBlocker for .Text

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You should check out ReverseDOS from Mike at angrypets: http://angrypets.com/tools/rdos/

Doesn't require a different Dottext.Framework.dll which is good if you have made any modifications to that file
Left by Christopher on Jun 20, 2005 8:39 PM

# re: Trackback SpamBlocker for .Text

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Thanks Chris for this segnalation, seems really promising. I'll test it
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Jun 21, 2005 12:36 PM

# re: Trackback SpamBlocker for .Text

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I just posted a new and improved trackback spam blocker that will work for any ASP.NET blogging engine including .Text and dasBlog (or any ASP.NET application for that matter)... Just thought you might be interested as you posted about the .Text only version.

Here is the new one: http://briandela.com/blog/archive/2005/06/29/652.aspx ... it works using similar methods to my .Text only one but this one does not require any changes to be made to the applications themselves.

Brian
Left by Brian Delahunty on Jun 30, 2005 11:09 AM

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