On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote:
> >> even the developers who know what is happening shouldn't complain. >> >> I have a site that seems to get crawled by bots quite frequently. I >> had a >> feedback form that didn't have a honeypot originally. I got about >> 3-4 pieces >> of spam a day. Turning on the honey pot, I only have gotten a few >> pieces of >> spam. >> >> The honeypot isn't the most effective spam measure but it is an >> easy and >> cheap way to catch the type of spam bots that crawl looking for any >> input to >> place their ugliness. You don't need to ping a service like Askimet >> and the >> item doesn't need to hit the db. >> >> IMO there is no reason not to have this in any form that you think >> might get >> spammed. It helps out, and it doesn't harm anything. I would still >> use >> another service for spam as well, but this is the most base check I >> can >> think of. > > Okay fair enough. I guess it really is useful to reduce the number of > spams, although you would still expect spams :-) I have implemented > captcha before, but I found it very inconvenient for the visitors and > as you said the operation is quite expensive. Do you have any other > recommendation of another spam preventer service? I haven't tried > akismet, it sounds really user-friendly compared to captcha. +1 for akismet, once you've got it set up it works like a charm, and you can adjust your signals so it won't check logged in users or approved IPs or whatever. In a year or so of using it I've gotten only one real comment marked as spam, and maybe three or four spams have gotten through. Not bad. Michael's point is good: having several layers of spam protection is a great idea, and if you put the lightweight ones out front, you can maximize protection while minimizing hits on databases or external services. E > > Thanks heaps. > > -- > Certified Scrum Master > http://twitter.com/scrum8 | http://blog.scrum8.com | http://jobs.scrum8.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
