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
>