Geek News Central: After 6 hours of being back online here are the preliminary results.
- First Spam Trackback Ping: 9 seconds after upload
- Maximum Number of pings per 60 Seconds: 328
- Sustained Average Spam ping Rate per Hour: 12,660
- Total Ping Rate per 24 hours: 303,840
- Total Ping Rate per 30 days: 9,115,200
This is after I have had the mt-tb.cgi file removed from the server for over 60 days!
http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/004894.html
Randy: When I get a trackback, an agent loads the referring page and checks that it actually has a link to the trackbacked blog entry. This eliminates 99.99% of that trackback SPAM. I got 380 trackback pings yesterday (mostly all, if not all trackback SPAM).
Randy