[support] attention any blind users on the list or site administrators spam prevention

Rolf Kutz rk at vzsze.de
Wed Sep 21 07:40:24 UTC 2011


Hello Shérab,

On 21/09/11 09:14 +0200, Shérab wrote:
>I didn't have to set-up any spam protection on the drupal sites I
>amadministrating, so far. But as a user, what I find the mostconvenient
>is when sites send you a code or a link in an e-mailyou then have to
>re-send to the site to prove your request is legitimate.
>
>I realise this is not an absolute protection, but perhaps this would be
>enough to discourage spammers: wouldthey really want to automate such a
>thing: fill a form, wait for an e-mail, extract the information from
>that mail and then re-submit to the site...

I'm administering a site and we registrations from
spambots, although a veryfication by e-mail is
mandatory. I don't know why they register, either.

>The other point is that I don't know whether there are Drupal modules to
>do that.

You could allow things for registered users only
and use the registration system, but that usually
not what you want if you use captcha.

>A satisfactory solution for me was the one used on project Euler's
>website. It was audible, didn't use any javascript, so I found it pretty
>cool and it is the only good experience I can think of regarding
>captchas.

Could you provide a link to that website?

Have a nice day
Rolf

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