Jeremy Andrews wrote:
Yes and no. Yes, this most recent flood I suffered would have been prevented by disabling anonymous commenting.
Just a general comment on this for everyone's interest. Spam-bots are easier to stop by requireing registration.
spammers have registered user accounts on my site before and used them to post spam
But as Jeremy has experienced - Spamming is an outsourced industry with people being paid to do it. If site registration is quick and easy (as it is with Drupal - because it is such great a CMS) - then you are still faced with the spam issue. Even with sighted-human-input-validation - or what others annoyingly refer to as captchas - paid humans are good at getting past them. And lets not forget the point of this thread - improved caching - which has the pleasant side effect of keeping your site running smoothly under a hailstorm of spam-bot posts. I would love to see an optional file-cache system for blogging or brochureware sites that use Drupal. And in a perfect world improved traditional drupal caching for community features (like forums) and file-based caching for mainly static modules like books or plain pages (those with low volume comments). Or in other words a configuration option to choose the caching mechanism based on the node type. (I can hear Bèr grumbling already ;-). andre