Managing trackbacks / trackback-spam from an RSS Reader
07-September-2005
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We've made good progress on tools to make trackbacks easy to monitor and manage. By the end of the week, we'll have deployed a pretty thorough suite. In tests on our own content, these make it easy to bash trackback spams almost as soon as they come in.
There are two new through the web templates:
- weblog.trackbacks
- This is a weblog-specific template which can be invoked on a weblog or any content within it. It displays a batched aggregate weblog view of the trackbacks within that content, with affordances to delete trackbacks if you have manager role. This template will soon become the 'more' link from the 'recent trackbacks' sidebar, and we'll also hav a link to it from the stats sidebar
- trackback_admin
- This is a Plone template which can be invoked on a Plone portal itself, or on any content within it. It requires manager role. It provides a batched listing of all trackbacks within the content (either flat or deep) with checkboxes for selecting items to delete
There is also a new RSS feed - TBs.xml - which can be invoked on any Plone or KNotes content. It demands authentication by a member with manager role, anf takes an optional limit search argument. It lists (deep) trackbacks anywhere ithin the content it is invoked on. The item display includes links to the content rceiving the trackback, the URL source for the trackback, and - especially convenient - a direct DELETE THIS TRACKBACK link. Clicking the delete link in an item calls the delete script through the web ( and will demand authentication if you are not already logged in ). We have used this feed successfully in netnewswire on os-x but at the moment are not getting authentication to work in the windows readers we've tried. i we annot get this working in a widerrange of readers by the end of the week, we'll change our plan - if so, we'll post a notice here to that effect.
See the screenshot for an annotated anatomy of the special RSS feed.
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1 Update - feedreader authenticates OK in windows
See www.feedreader.com for more information about a free newsreader for windows which behaves correctly when challenged for authentication by KNotes' trackback management feed. It looks like a very good reader - for instance it does a good job with the RSS2 full content feeds from KNotes.
We'll try to investigate the problems we encounter trying to subscribe with NewsGator and RSSReader. If anyone knows anything about the issue, please let us know either by replying here, or from my IName.
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