Despite having patched Drupal to run its anti-spam module on trackbacks, too much trackback spam is getting through, even of the form of stuff that it's been theoretically trained on and should know for certain is spam, and the attacks are coming ever more frequently. Thus, I have no alternative but to disable trackbacks until enough of the Drupal modules for 4.6.0 are working well enough for me to attempt a major upgrade and test the systems again.
Days like this make me think the Chinese had the right idea when they started executing spammers.
Spammer executions
How long have they been doing that?
(And did it work?)
It's not really a policy
As far as I know, it actually only happened once, and I think there were additional considerations, such as the spammer using government equipment to do it. I unfortunately can't find a reference to the event on the net. And no, a substantial amount of spam still comes out of China. But I can still vent vengefully.
Venting vengefully
... and alliteratively as well, it seems.