[IMC-Tech] May Need Captchas for Articles

[David Gehrig]

I've just installed a module called "troll" which lets you block
user IPs.  The spams all came from the same IP, which is now
blocked.

Incidentally, I have the drupal logs set so that they only
contain the last 24 hours.  Log entries older than that are
automatically deleted.  This is meant to maintain the balance
between long-term anonymity versus the kind of stuff we need
to know to keep spam from clogging our site, as it did the last one.

On 10/22/06, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've just removed the fourth piece of spam from the website this
> evening. All of these have been posted as articles to the Local
> Newswire, categorized under Rantoul. I suspect that since catpchas are
> not needed to upload articles, someone sees posting spam as articles as
> a possible exploit.They have been posted singly, an hour or so apart,
> like someone is watching to see what happens. It may be that we should
> have an update that applies captchas to all posting, not just comments,
> for anonymous users.
> Mike Lehman
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