On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Alex Dean <
alex@crackpot.org> 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. <smile>
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