[COREblog-en] how to disable trackback?

[Nick Owen]

On 6/12/06, Ben Osman <ben.nospam at smoothify.com> wrote:
>
> Atsushi Shibata wrote:
> > Hi :-).
> >
> > How about customizing "portal_skins/coreblog2/tbping" ?
>
> > Put floowing code after if block, so you can avoid trackback including
> > "buzz words" string.
> >
> > if excerpt.lower().find("buzz words") == -1:
> >     return
> >
> > If you use Python 2.3, you can also write like this.
> >
> > if "buzz words" in excerpt.lower():
> >     return
> >
> > I think you should learn more about Python ;-).
> >
> > Have fun :-)
> >
>
> I've been getting spam too - so i used Atsushi's suggestion and extended
> it. Ideally should load the spamwords list from another file.
>
> You should add more words to the list (do a search for something like
> trackback spam word list)
>
> In "portal_skins/coreblog2/tbping" add following code after
> "excerpt = cbtool.convert_charcode(excerpt)":
>
> spamWords = [
> 'casino',
> 'prilosec',
> 'viagra',
> ]
>
> words = excerpt.split(' ')
>
> for word in words:
>    if word.lower() in spamWords:
>      return


This (plus mod_security for apache) works pretty effectively,
Unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ended supply of spammable words (I
don't even know what "retin" is ;).  I'm back to requiring authentication
for trackbacks, effecitvely turning them off.  I think moderation is the
answer, combined with preventitive measures.

Just me .02,

nick

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