[LRUG] Anti-spam measures

[Chris O'Sullivan]

Courtenay over at caboo.se has just released Splam.

Blog post: http://www.caboo.se/articles/2008/11/24/a-plam-for-splam
Github: http://github.com/courtenay/splam/tree/master

But, well, I haven't tried it - it could be a giant pile of poo

2008/11/26 James Darling <james at abscond.org>

> The spammers have found the comment forms on my app, it looks like
>> I'll need to implement some anti-spam measures.
>>
>> Any suggestions ? Askimet, Captchas, switch my comments over to
>> Disqus? Googling around for this turns up a lot of old plugins, what's
>> the current accepted "solution" ?
>>
>
> I haven't done this in a little while, but I usually use one of two things.
> The first is Akismet, which I've had good experience with.
> The second, if you are not going to be personally targeted by spammers, is
> to make a simple prove-you-are-human form like "type cat in this box", which
> is then auto filled out and hidden by javascript. Invisible to JS-enabled
> users, a mild inconvenience (much better than captchas) to non JS users, and
> stops generic form submitters.
>
> James
>
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