[support] Spammers

[Patrick Avella]

Mollom blocks around 95% of spam sign ups and comments for me, but
it's still not absolute.

You can also block countries via GeoIP and apache, I've had some
success with this because most bad requests come from China, Russia,
and Africa (I've blocked many more as well). The obvious problem is
that you block potentially legitimate users, and this may not be
acceptable depending on your website.

Another great option is the quiz module for captcha (I forget the
name) but you basically write your own short random questions with
simple answers. No robot can get past those without human aid.

The final and worst bit that I'll add, is that there's no way to stop
the spammers entirely. If they think they can profit off of your site
they will spend money on paying people to sit there and answer captcha
questions.

Best of luck.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> Try the spambot module. It checks email addresses against known stammers.
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> Ken
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