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Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Densmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam@redfish.com> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Comment Spam! > Yup, captcha was a possible plugin choice for my Textpattern system. > But I wanted to avoid it if possible, I find them really annoying. > > So I tried two alternative plugins: > - A simple link counter: more than 2 links require moderation, more > than 5 are tossed. This one also has a small list of obvious words > (viagra, porn, ...) to check for as well. > - A known spam-bot list which uses the current hot bot ip addresses > to toss spam. > > Between the two of these, I looked at my logs this morning and they > foiled *200* attempts with none getting through! So that looks > promising. > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net > > > On Oct 27, 2006, at 10:53 PM, James Steiner wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha >> http://www.captcha.net/ >> >> CAPTCHA(TM)s (the distorted word thingys "Completely Automated Public >> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") and other cognitive >> puzzles (pick the picture of a kitten from the 9 pictures to prove you >> are not a spambot) seem to be de riguer... though there are >> techniques for defeating them on the large scale. >> >> For a small site, just implementing a *bad* captcha can be enough to >> prevent minor/lazy spambots from visiting. >> >> Another techniques I've seen include the use of awful click-with-mouse >> javascript keypad where the numbers move around, and the numbers are >> graphics, but the code doesn't say which key is which number (its >> obfuscated), so a computer reading the webpage can't tell which >> buttons to press. Its super-duper annoying. >> >> ~~James >> >> On 10/27/06, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Wow! I just got hit with over *400* comment spams on backspaces! >>> >>> I had heard about it but had not personally experienced it. Its why >>> you get those weird and annoying "tell me what this distorted image >>> says" tickets before being able to enter your comment for forums or >>> blogs. >>> >>> So I've instituted several suggestions on this page: >>> http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Combat_Comment_Spam >>> .. but it seems a difficult problem to solve, other than simply >>> moderating every comment. >>> >>> Have any of us friamers had this happen to their sites? Any >>> interesting solutions? >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
