[Web4lib] Re: Drupal Hosting

[D.H. Mattison]

March 27, 2008

I was wondering if any of your library sites that allow public comments to
discussion forums, blog posts or wiki pages are using reCAPTCHA
(http://recaptcha.net/) rather than a plain vanilla CAPTCHA that serves no
real purpose other than to trap comment spammers? Mark, you'll be interested
to know there is a reCAPTCHA plugin for Drupal.

Thanks,

David Mattison
http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mark Jordan
Sent: March 27, 2008 11:22 AM
To: Blake Carver
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Re: Drupal Hosting

The more popular the application, the higher a target it is for spammers and
crackers. However, just to clarify how this relates to Drupal, the Drupal
security team is among the best in the open source business and respond
promptly to security isses, and the CAPTCHA module eliminates comment spam.
Of course, CAPTCHA can't keep out humans posting about casinos, and once
CAPTCHA is cracked it won't keep out spambots, but until then it is doing an
excellent job. I run CAPTCHA on four drupal sites and we don't have any
anonymous comment spam.

Traffic spikes are an issue -- the server has to respond in order to turn a
spambot away.

Mark