Turning the corner on trackback spam

I think I'm finally turning the corner on all the trackback spam I've been getting; banning IP addresses seems to help.

I found a nice little shortcut that makes this stuff easier to manage. In the trackback list, just click on the IP address in the Source column. (In the comment list, you can click the little magnifying glass icon in the IP column for the same effect.) This gives you a filtered list of all the trackback pings (or comments) posted from that address; it makes it easy to just click the "check all" button to select them all, then "Delete" to send them all to the bit-bucket.

Furthermore, when you have this kind of filtered view of trackbacks or comments from a single address, the blog server also gives you a button to "Ban this IP", so you can do that without having to copy the address and enter it separately on the banning screen.

Just thought I'd share that little tip.