I would liek to see a per weblog setting to Turn off trackbacks all together blogwide.  The only setting is “Select ‘Allow Trackbacks’ button in Publish page by default?”  and while that allows you to set it on and off per Entry, I’d like a way to turn them off/on blogwide in one fell swoop.  That way I could just turn off all trackbacks during spam floods, and re-enable them after the flooding was over.

What I do is just set the max trackbacks per hour to zero. It seems to work.

interesing fix..  hadn’t thought of that.

It’s just a stopgap, of course. Best is to identify the common URL string in the trackback info and add it to the URLs list in your Blacklist module.

That was what allowed me to re-enable trackbacks within a few hours of discovering the spam flood. But it needs receiving a few spam trackbacks so you can identify enough of the URL for the blacklisting to be useful.

Yea, but even when I lacklist the URL string, the keywords don’t always blaclist the url.  I don’t know if its a bug or not, but about 1 in 5 still get through.. even blacklisted.

From what I’m seeing of bug reports about the 1.2 beta, there may be a new trackback feature to stop spam. But until I can actually see the new version I don’t know for sure.