{"id":123,"date":"2005-04-10T22:01:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T22:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2005\/04\/10\/go_away_spammer\/"},"modified":"2005-04-10T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-10T22:01:44","slug":"go_away_spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Go away spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A by-product of the upgrade to the new server was opening chriscurnow.com up to trackback spammers.<br \/>\nOh dear, I was getting 20 &#8211; 30 a day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/movabletype\/\">Moveable Type v3<\/a> certainly makes it easier to delete trackback spam but it doesn&#8217;t stop it from getting through.<br \/>\nWhen I was using Moveable Type v2.x I had installed Jay Allen&#8217;s MT-Blacklist 1.x. It worked well but required a lot of maintenance. This version of MTB also doesn&#8217;t work with Moveable Type v3.x. So, I finally got around to installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/projects\/mt-blacklist\/\">MT-Blacklist v2<\/a>. All of a sudden, no more trackback spam. Well done Jay. And, hey MTB v2 is a huge improvement over v1!<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re using Moveable Type you probably now about it, but just in case you don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/pronet\/comment_spam.html\">here<\/a> is their article on combatting spam.<br \/>\nElise also discusses the topic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elise.com\/mt\/archives\/000246concerning_spam.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A by-product of the upgrade to the new server was opening chriscurnow.com up to trackback spammers. Oh dear, I was getting 20 &#8211; 30 a day. Moveable Type v3 certainly makes it easier to delete trackback spam but it doesn&#8217;t stop it from getting through. When I was using Moveable Type v2.x I had installed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}