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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Dirk[/u][p]All spam is treated the same, i.e. all posts (comments, stories, trackbacks, ...) are run through Spam-X in the same way. In fact, Spam-X doesn't even know whether the post it's looking at is a story submission or a trackback or whatever.

The only difference is that the new trackback code also does a check for backlinks, i.e. it checks if the site that supposedly sent the trackback is actually linking to you. That's something that Spam-X can't do (since it doesn't know what a trackback is). Therefore, this catches spam that Spam-X wouldn't normally catch.

The Google posts you mention are test runs by a certain trackback spammer, e.g. [code]<a href="http://www.google.com/">this is very good</a> from this is very good<br>
this is related article <a href="http://www.google.com/">[read more]</a><br>
Tracked on Tuesday, August 22 2006 @ 02:41 PM EDT
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Obviously, unless you want to block everyone linking to Google, those can't be easily blocked when they come in as a comment. But with the backlink check in the trackback handling, they are easily identified as spam.

bye, Dirk[/p][/QUOTE]

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