[support] Mollom and Captcha issue?

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Nov 2 16:14:23 UTC 2012


The Halloween goblins have gone to sleep.  In such a random active
world it would be hard to say.

Earnie

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Pia Oliver <pia at piasworld.com> wrote:
> Last Sunday morning I changed to Mollom from Captcha to stop spam from our
> webforms. Spam had slowly grown and we seemed to get a few each day. I
> installed Mollom (free account) and the module told me that all was OK.
> However, by morning of Wednesday, we had received NO inquiries from the
> website whatsoever, and also no spam. Since we have at least 2-6 inquiries
> each day, I was alarmed and thought it must be the Mollom set-up preventing
> emails. I checked the submissions for each form (3) and there were no
> submissions after 27 Oct.
> I then disabled Mollom and re-enabled Captcha set to the Math problem. We
> are now getting the spam again, but only one (1) legitimate email and it's
> now Friday morning. Is it possible that something has "infected/taken over"
> and is preventing legitimate webform submissions? I have tested the system
> (not logged in but as a visitor) and my test emails are going through.
> Any ideas?
>
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> Pia Oliver
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> <http://www.piasworld.com>
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