On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Alex Dean wrote: > I continued to have comment-spam problems on my personal Drupal site even > after enabling captcha challenges. The Drupal 'spam' module, which is > something like spamcop for Drupal, has been quite good so far. (Only > installed it this morning, but I've already seen it block a number of bogus > comments.) > > http://drupal.org/project/spam > > alex > > On most of my production Drupal sites, I CANNOT even enable comments. It's a sad day when one cannot have a login based access that is not hit by SPAM bots? > On Dec 15, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Technomage Hawke wrote: > > > Steve, > > don't worry about it. the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I agree that > CAPTCHAS are inherently evil. I have problems on walmartmoneycard.com. I > cannot log in because of the stupid CAPTCHA and it seems that walmart isn't > going to do anything about it either. > > > > I am not familiar with drupal at all, so I have no idea what turing tests > that it has at its disposal. Are there any other tests that don't involve > locking the blind (and deafblind)? > > > > -Eric > > > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:48:03PM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote: > >>> We simply cannot allow these bots to spam the site; PLUG is an older > Drupal > >>> that doesn't include the "human verification" tests. > >> > >> These human verification tests you refer to, often include CAPTCHA. > >> As far as I'm concerned, most CAPTCHA schemes are evil and I say that > >> because blind people who use audio or Braille screen readers can never > >> parse the information displayed in the little pretty pictures they > >> show. Some audio CAPTCHA drills make for an alternative but then deaf > >> blind users are still excluded. I don't know aht all human type tests > >> are available in Drupal but I would be most interested in evaluating > >> any of these if PLUG should move to such Drupal versions and wish to > >> implement any of these. > >> > >> Sorry for any whining but just looking out for my rights to equal > >> access. > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- (503) 754-4452 (623) 688-3392 http://www.it-clowns.com | http://www.obnosis.com