By LukePickering on

I'm planning to set up a little community site for cyclists in my local area. It'll centre around forums, sharing bike routes, event information, stuff like that.

I'm concerned about spam and security. I don't want to launch the site only to have it overrun with spam messages and put everyone off. Can you reccommend any good practical measures that I can take to guard against this happening and also to make sure I keep user data as safe as possible?

Luke

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Comments

Steve Halleman’s picture

Steve Halleman commented

You can limit automated spammers by using http://drupal.org/project/captcha.

xqbzzr’s picture

xqbzzr commented

And the "mollom" module will do the overall registration protection.
I use both on my sites and never had any spam.

dayzman1’s picture

dayzman1 commented

You can try CAPTCHA's additional modules -- some of them, like http://drupal.org/project/egglue_captcha ,are safer than others from automated spam.