Re: forum spam cont

Hopefully in would at least reduce the bots.

Some though, are humans and some are quite good at it. Take this for  
instance: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/108192. Almost certainly a  
spammer - there has been an unnatural surge in posts asking silly but  
plausible questions about using Gallery. Many do have a giveaway spam  
link as a signature though although this doesn't.

Also can't recollect how it handles users already registered as I  
noted one of the spammers that hit the site the other day had  
registered 30 weeks ago!

Even if it only cuts the new spam accounts, the seeded ones will be  
slowly rubbed out over time as one thing that really works well is the  
"block spammer" as it cross matches other posts.

Perhaps looking at the volume of traffic getting passed to mollom  
after a while could give an idea of whether it is helping or not.



On Aug 23, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Bharat Mediratta wrote:

>
> I added HttpBL on GMC - let me know if this makes a difference.
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Chad Kieffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying HttpBL for Drupal sounds like a relatively simple thing to  
> try to stem the current flood. I see that HttpBL has a Drupal 7  
> version, which is an added bonus. Te module page states that  
> Drupal.org uses it, wonder of they still do?
>
> Bharat, I'd install it, but I don't think I have SSH access to GMC's  
> host.
>
> - Chad
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Dayo Akanji <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> StopSpamForum works great. I actually did a version of the G2  
>> captcha module that uses it when I started getting spam through the  
>> contact page.
>>
>> A similar concept is the HttpBL from Project Honeypot. There is a  
>> drupal module including for D5: http://drupal.org/project/httpbl/ .  
>> Using the SMF implementation together with some homebrew stuff,  
>> haven't had a spammer register since on a pretty moribund site ...  
>> the sort that usually gets overrun.
>>
>> PErhaps installing an existing module might be less of a task.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Wayne Patterson wrote:
>>
>>> Just after my last msg I removed 4 new spammers who had registered  
>>> and posted within 12 minutes.
>>> As Dayo suggests this has become quite a problem.
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