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Akismet looks great, I hadn't been familiar with this before. But it doesn't look to me like a university and/or library can use Akismet for free; it looks like it might be $25/month ($300 a year), which is a bit steep. But I'm not certain; anyone know if a university library can maybe in fact use it for free? Jonathan Ross Singer wrote: > 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 >> >> > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu