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re: Movable Type Force-Preview Update

Submitted by Alden Bates on Sat, 25-Mar-2006 - 6:26 pm.

The thing with Trackback spams is that under normal circumstances, legitimate trackbacks only come from blooging software and therefore won't have a User-agent matching IE. Most trackback spam, however, has a (possibly faked) Internet Explorer User agent. I've therefore been blocking them using a mod_rewrite rule in my .htaccess file...

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