{"id":101,"date":"2005-03-18T02:21:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T02:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2005\/03\/18\/spam_or_die\/"},"modified":"2005-03-18T02:21:28","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T02:21:28","slug":"spam_or_die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2005\/03\/18\/spam_or_die\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam or die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve sort of held a bit of pride for not having to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/projects\/mt-blacklist\/\">MT-Blacklist<\/a> since employing Movable Type back in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to be clever &#8212; I wrapped MT&#8217;s comment script around my own account interface, which requires human approval. If bots tried to scan my pages for a comments script, they weren&#8217;t going to have an easy time finding it.<\/p>\n<p>Trackbacks, though, were a different matter.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rather than link to the Trackback script directly, I publicized a URL for each entry instead, forcing users to copy and paste the URL into their textareas. I knew in the back of my head those publicized URLs would make me a sitting duck the day Trackback spam became a reality.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two weeks, it became a reality. I started receiving Trackback spams.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, Trackback is so underutilized on my sites, the spam spurred me to do what I&#8217;d been considering (but too lazy) to do for a while &#8212; remove Trackbacks from my sites.<\/p>\n<p>Which I did. But the bots that send the spam don&#8217;t know that. Isn&#8217;t that dumb? Send spam to a site that won&#8217;t even display the URL your spamming? So that meant installing MT-Blacklist, an inevitability I&#8217;m surprised I managed to stave off for two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last two weeks, it became a reality. I started receiving Trackback spams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-1D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}