Via Chetan Ckunte´ s blog and BlogaholicsI came upon this thread, apparently started by Tom Coates of plasticbag.org:
Ongoing is a discussion whether the trackback function in blogs is “dead”, meaning no longer usable because of trackback-spamming….

Like I said before, its hard to argue with success. Maybe something new will come along and my security measures won’t work. I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Still don’t see where anything I said was deserving of your rather condescending and spiteful response, but maybe your mommy didn’t teach you any manners.

and then whack them.

FWIW, I’m on Drupal and with the spam-filtered TB, I also cut my spam counts to zero for a period of several weeks. But that does not mean anything, dig? You don’t need a caustic ass to draw the “Door is Unlocked” arrow, the hole remains, and the spammers know that, and, according to independent articles in both the Register and on Wired, the revenues from spam are so staggeringly high that the best you can get only bides some time.

If that bothers you, or even if it doesn’t, makes no difference to me, but you’re no more protected from TB spam by switching to WP than you’re protected from AIDS by coitus interruptus. So you can rest easy in your false security, it’s a nice place to be, but I’ve already had that experience of having my weekend ruined by being hit by multiple website link-spammers with new toys, or seeing my sites cached in google as Texas Hold-em hubs, and I just don’t find watching my back 7×24 to be a particularly fun way of “easy publishing online”.

You do what you like, but despite how ever much I envy your comfy snugness, I’m still keeping the anon-public write tab switched off until there’s some real solutions.

Strange…considering that in the last month I’ve had over 3,000 attempted spam comments/trackbacks (according to Spam Karma’s count) with only one or two getting through.

I’ll admit that I’m no genius when it comes to the technical side of my blog (I have Mark for that), but its hard to argue with success. I get an above average amount of traffic and an above average number of attempted spam comments/trackbacks, but the measures Mark has installed to stop them have been much more effective than Mark is letting on. I do not “keep my head above water,” I simply don’t have a problem.

But thanks for being a caustic ass about the whole thing. Adds a lot to the discussion.

I’m placing your advice right up there with the CTO who, when challenged on his 2 days to delivery timeline, told the room “Oh, programming is easy! It’s the debugging that’s hard.”