Has anyone else been getting absolutely slammed with trackback spam lately? Usually I get two or three spams caught up in my moderation queue a day, but since the weekend I’ve been getting at least 20. I was running Akismet 1.2 and upgrading to 2.0 didn’t help. As it stands right now, Akismet has caught 1085 spams and failed to catch 96. I wasn’t really been keeping tabs on the numbers, so I am not sure if this is roughly the same missed spam rate I was seeing before or if the volume of trackback spam has increased tremendously.
At this point, my mailbox is getting so full of moderation requests that I’m about to just turn trackbacks off altogether. I’m not crazy about this, as I don’t have regular comments turned on, but I don’t know what else to do. If anyone has any ideas or insight, drop me a line.