Anyway, Tom describes how he is trying to overcome the problem of spammers hitting his trackbacks. It's a battle you can't win by reviewing posts. Period. Don't even try.

- 188,126,901 spams caught so far
- 1,458,600 so far today
- 92% of all comments are spam
It works great. I can have trackbacks and comments wide open. Akismet catches the spam for me. Occasionally, something is marked as spam that is not, but it is definitely the exception. Most of the good conversations get through. And, I don't have to spend hours each day fighting spam instead of adding to the global conversations.
Tom's on Typepad. I don't know if bloggers that use Typepad can sign up for Akismet or not. If they can't, then they should consider switching to Wordpress and signing up for Akismet.
Of course, I did this article with a Trackback to Tom's original post. We'll see if it shows up!
Bottom line: Let's all support Akismet and get trackbacks and comments open for humans and closed for spammers!
Tags: Spam, Akismet, Wordpress, Typepad, Trackbacks, Blogging, Brian Berliner, brianberliner
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