[IMC-Tech] May Need Captchas for Articles

[Mike Lehman]

Excellent. Death to spam!
Mike Lehman

David Gehrig wrote:
> 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