Trying out yet another plugin to cut down on the amount of spam. Since most of it is directed at older posts I poked around for an auto-attendent and found this quick and dirty solution. Fingers are crossed that it doesn’t destroy the database.
UPDATE: It works and now any posts older than 21 days will be auto-closed for me, including tracksbacks.

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