Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Manes
sbeam wrote: Akismet should be mentioned here, a popular spam detection ASP, free for non-commercial use http://akismet.com/ Another new entry is Mollum (www.mollum.com). It was created by the lead developer of Drupal, Dries Buytaert. It bundles up concepts from Akismet, Captcha, Razor and

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 13:11, csnyder wrote: > Just looked at Bad Behavior, and it looks like an excellent tool to > add to the kit. > hey. that looks interesting too. But it sounds http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/documentation/how-it-works/ like it is just looking at HTTP headers? if yo

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:39, csnyder wrote: > I would design it so that everything went through a > spam filter first, and the bigger the better. Like GMail if you can > accept that from a privacy point of view, or your organization's > internal spam filter. Then, and only then, would I allow

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread csnyder
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, csnyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In response to the fellow having problems with forum spammer, google "Bad >> Behavior" and install it. Just looked at Bad Behavior, and it looks like an excel

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread csnyder
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to the fellow having problems with forum spammer, google "Bad > Behavior" and install it. > > Other ideas. > > Create a question where people have answer for example "5+2". Or forego that > because it's a pain and simp

[nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

2008-10-14 Thread Joe
In response to the fellow having problems with forum spammer, google "Bad Behavior" and install it. Other ideas. Create a question where people have answer for example "5+2". Or forego that because it's a pain and simply add a form field that you use css to hide from humans and if that field