Trackbacks, Bastards and Blocklists
Originally published at Words. Please leave any comments there.
As of recent, most particularly, last week I’ve recieved several hundred trackbacks to a collection of articles on this page. Had the situation that I’m about to describe been different such circumstances would be celebrated as oposed to being condemned and placed under a heading containing the word “Bastards,” but this situation fits the title wonderfully.
Essentially, all the trackbacks orginated from a single provider: inhoster.com
This host, from the best of my understanding contains no legitimate customers, and serves only as a cover for countless spammers running an innumerable number of spam bots. Lucky for me, and potentially the metaphorical us the trackbacks originated from a very narrow host of addresses. After several attempts, and filtering with a moderation queue my current blocklist and moderation filter contain just three entries, which for your convinience I will post here:
85.255.114
85.255.119
85.255.113
Feel free to add these to your block lists, or at the very least your moderation filter to stop these potential bastards from wasting your juicy bandwidth.