[drupal-support] Re: Getting killed by spam

[Peter Karlberg]

24 jul 2005 kl. 03.05 skrev John Goerzen:
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>> Another alternative one is to close down your comments for  
>> anonymous users.
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> I have had to do that temporarily, but I do not consider it an
> acceptable solution.  I hate having to create an account before
> participating in something, and I don't want to inflict that on  
> others.
> It does, in a very real sense, make it more difficult to participate.
I had the same problem and did two things:

I accept anonymus users to make comments but their comments has to be  
apporoved by an administrator. This is ok when the volume of spam  
comments is limited.

I set my site to Swedish (default). The "spammers" do not handle  
Swedish:-) - yet!
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Peter

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