BlogCFC: Trackback Spam Killing Made Easy

Posted At : April 27, 2006 6:33 PM | Posted By : Leif Wells
Related Categories: General, Coldfusion

I just fired off an email to Ray Camden thanking him for the Trackback Spam prevention and deletion.

For those of you who may not know, BlogCFC is the bloging software that Ray has created and offered to the community that many people in the Adobe community use. It requires Coldfusion and a database (MySQL, MSSQL and Access are supported) but there are plenty of hosts out there who have affordable hosting (I am currently using HostMySite for all of my sites).

The Trackback Spam feature is great. BlogCFC merely sends me a note anytime someone adds a trackback link to an entry. If the link is not of a legitimate nature, i.e. is Spam, I merely click a link in the email, and "bam", no more link. No matter of where I am in the world, if I can check my email, I can kill any trackback spam that might be leaching my site.

If you are interested in BlogCFC and want to learn more, Ray has launched BlogCFC.com to track his progress with version 5 which is in development. I am excited to see the progress that Ray is making and plan on using BlogCFC 5 when it becomes more mature.

Does Ray ever sleep? I mean, really, he has created software for blogging, forums, surveys, wiki, bug tracking,... seriously; he has to be an extremely efficient and motivated individual.

Thank you again, Ray.