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Finally got rid of Spam Thanks to Captcha


By David Grant - Posted on 13 August 2007

Finally got rid of spam from my site. It had caused me problems to no end. I have been using Akismet, but it is not perfect and has the odd false positive so I can't have it delete messages it thinks are spam. I have to have it put them in a spam moderation queue. But unfortunately I have to scan through them quickly before deleting which takes some time. When I was on holidays in May the spam actually caused my disk space on the server to run out.

Finally the Drupal Captcha module actually works and can do image captchas, not just text captchas. Now I have gone 2 days spam free so far.

spam karma 2 (SK2) is a good wordpress plugin to counter spam, my site uses that. Without needed user who writing comments for me to type captcha code, It servers me good.

freezfile.com is a good wordpress plugin to counter spam, my site uses that. Without needed user who writing comments for me to type captcha code, It servers me good.

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