By HollywoodChicago.com on
The URL filter isn't working in my Drupal spam module. As I haven't gotten a response to the issue I opened within that module, I'm also posting it here. See here for a description of my issue. Anyone have any thoughts to fix this?
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Not a direct answer to your
Not a direct answer to your issue, but have you considered the Mollom module to handle spam?
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Mollom
I wasn't familiar with Mollom, but it looks interesting. I'm guessing this is designed to replace the Drupal spam module? In other words, you should use one or the other but not both, right?
You could?
I suspect you could use both, but there is little need, and therefore probably not much sense, in doing so, should you choose the Mollom approach.
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Mollom
I just wanted you to know that I've installed Mollom and it appears to be working wonderfully. It's catching the posts that the Drupal spam module wasn't. I did see a conflict with both modules installed in that it'd white screen/time out.
I've disabled the Drupal spam module and Mollom appears to be working great so far. The free version of Mollom, though, is limited to only 100 legit posts and 100 correct CAPTCHA entries a day.
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"I did see a conflict with
"I did see a conflict with both modules installed in that it'd white screen/time out."
The white screen of death occurs very often when there isn't enough memory allocated. Increase yor memory allocation and you will probably be able to use both modules if you need them.
Glad that Mollom works well for you.
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Interesting
Interesting. Good to know. Thanks!
Mollom success story!
For others interested in the power of Mollom, I have this success story for you.
Since we installed Mollom on HollywoodChicago.com to block spam (thanks to the suggestion in this thread), not ONE piece of spam has made it through including all the ones that were leaking through before. Mollom currently reports a 99.93% overall success rate (only 7 in 10,000 spam messages were not caught) of blocking spam on 5,307 active Web sites.
Since we installed Mollom on HollywoodChicago.com, it has blocked 263 spam attempts! The previous Drupal spam module was blocking a lot of that, but was clearly getting tricked by the multiple URL spam messages that were leaking through (about one an hour). Here is Mollom's very impressive overall spam-blocking scorecard.
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