Geek in progress » protection http://www.itkovian.net/base I am not yet done. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:56:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 SPAM, begone! http://www.itkovian.net/base/spam-begone/ http://www.itkovian.net/base/spam-begone/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:06:06 +0000 Itkovian http://www.itkovian.net/base/?p=202 As you probably know, the moment a website becomes available on the web, it does not take long before spammers locate it, and try to pollute your content. I have no need for viagra, penis enlargement, large amount of money that can easily be transferred to my bank account, etc. and I have no desire whatsoever to offer these people another forum to offer their (illegal) merchandise. So, task one was to find adequate means for protecting myself, and (the few) people who read my rants.

Luckily, in the past, I have shared an office with Dries who has been thinking hard on the spam problem and has been working on a solution since he completed his PhD. The goal was to provide not simply spam protection, but also to help people increase the quality of the content, by protecting against profanities, anonymous user registration etc. To shorten a long story, this website has been using Mollom as its spam protection mechanism since its inception. As you can see, Mollom has been quite effective, I’ve only had five (iirc) false negatives (spam that was classified as acceptable content), which is almost perfect.

Mollom kills spam

Thanks guys, you rock!

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