Re: Preventing tbping spamming ?

On 3/21/07, sirloon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using CoreBlog2 0.9b for Plone, and I get spammed with trackback ping=
ing. I've disable trackback in my entries (cannot add/hidden), but I'm stil=
l receiving mail notifications. So I dig a little and found a possible bug =
(at least annoyance), in the tbping python script:
>
>   1. the script first sends mail notification
>   2. then tries to add the trackback
>
> I would have expected: try *then* notify. More, while adding trackback, t=
he script isn't interrested into the return value of addTrackback2Entry(). =
As a result, event if the trackback is closed/hidden (that is, not open), t=
he script won't be aware about this error (addTrackback2Entry() will return=
 None), and will return a tbping_result with error code ok.
>
> FWIW, attached is my customized tbping script.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Seb
> --
> S=E9bastien LELONG
> sebastien.lelong[at]sirloon.net
> http://www.sirloon.net
> http://sirbot.org
> "Syntactic sugar is just sugar, but it makes life tasty..."
> :wq!

But does this mean that you open up trackback to all now ? I mean with
this script is it enough to lessen the huge number of trackback spams
?

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