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What about Akismet? -Ross. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The Recaptcha device specifically also provides an audio test. But point > taken, even so it could prevent accessibility challenges. > > Nevertheless, when my system is currently receiving around one software > powered spam per minute, I need a quick pre-built drop-in solution to this; > I don't have time to write my own AI! If you have any other free or > affordable pre-built drop-in solutions to spam protection to suggest, this > would be a great forum to do so! > > My particular situation isn't even a web forum---it's a comment form that > does nothing but send email to librarians. But the spam bots don't know > that, and are sending 1 spam per minute to it. "Pre-moderation" is not a > solution; that's what we're doing now, but we can't afford to hire an FTE > just to seperate our actual user feedback from spam! > > Jonathan > > MJ Ray wrote: >> >> Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: [...] >> >>> >>> And then fails. Anyone managed to do this, or have any other advice for >>> using Recaptcha from perl? >>> >> >> Please don't use it as a barrier on the only access route to a >> service, else you will be locking out humans with vision or hearing >> problems, or even simply high browser security settings. >> >> More info: http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ >> >> If you want to combat spam, there are better ways, including some >> premoderation and heuristic checks of user submissions. After all, >> Recaptcha doesn't stop all human-powered spam (whether directly by a >> spammer or by porn-trojans). >> >> Hope that helps, >> > > -- > Jonathan Rochkind > Digital Services Software Engineer > The Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu >