[support] closing comments

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi,

If you are going to use captcha I would recommend using recaptcha. Not
because it is any better, but because by using re-captcha you actually
get your users to help the process of scanning all the books of the world.

By using the words from the scanned books that the worlds best OCR
readers can't determine, And then doing the usual warping and other
other things.

But now the spam sites are passing your captcha onto real people so then
they will enter your captcha to so they can spam your site. So sometime
I think captcha is a bit pointless. But a least it is helping things.

see http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html for more information. I use it
on a couple of sites just because of this reason.

Gordon.

Greg Holsclaw wrote:
> http://drupal.org/project/commentcloser is a module that does just that.
> 
> If you are getting spam, you should like also of one of the captcha
> modules:
> http://drupal.org/project/captcha
> http://drupal.org/project/recaptcha
> http://drupal.org/project/riddler
> 
> Or any of the other security modules:
> http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/69
> 
> Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Allen Stern
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:18 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] closing comments
> 
> Evening all.. is it possible to set posts older than say 60 days to not 
> allow comments? I get 1500 or so spams a day and a good majority of them
> 
> come from older posts so turning that off would be fab.
> 
> Thanks and don't forget to move the clocks in the U.S. :)
> 
> -- Allen