By meshackdotcom on

I have been lucky the past few months not to have to worry about spam, but now it is starting to become more and more of a problem. I wanted anonymous users to be able to post comments, but I had to change that when all I was getting were spam comments. Now I am getting spam emails from the contact form on my page.

So I am looking for advice on how to fight this. Can anyone recommend any modules or methods to deal with this problem? Thanks!!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

vm’s picture

vm commented

there are spam deterents in the downloads area.

mollom.module
spam.module
akismet.module (don't recall it's status for drupal 6.x)

there are capcha modules alos in the downloads area.

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

We've been using this combination for over 18 months (if my memory serves me right). Its been very successful at blocking or flagging the vast majority of spam. We still moderate every comment but that is rather easy since most are not spam (which substantially lowers the overhead of this onerous task).

Edit - just thought I'd check our stats - on one of our sites Captcha has blocked 77838 form submissions, and only since we migrated servers about 6 months ago...

These are the 3 module we use;

http://drupal.org/project/captcha
http://drupal.org/project/captcha_pack (we use the math captcha)
http://drupal.org/project/spam

Theres also http://drupal.org/project/recaptcha

And http://drupal.org/project/mollom

Need help with IE?
Learn basic XHTML and CSS first.
Get smart with web specs.

Pimp your Drupal 8 Toolbar - make it badass.
Adaptivetheme - theming system for people who don't code.
dries’s picture

dries commented

This is exactly why I wrote Mollom and the Mollom module. Check out the Mollom project at http://drupal.org/project/mollom, if you want.