I know many of you did not like the Captcha program I was using, and yesterday for some reason, it broke. I took that off and installed reCaptcha and it worked for normal visitors, however a ton of spam got past it. After getting over 100 spams per hour I poked around and found Mollom, which uses a unique approach to spam. From their web site:

Mollom is a web service that analyzes the quality of content posted to websites. This includes comments, contact-form messages, blogs, forum posts, etc. Mollom specifically tries to determine whether this content is unwanted - i.e. “spam” - or desirable - i.e. “ham.” Websites that allow visitors to contribute or post comments are constantly being flooded with inappropriate, distracting or even illegal commercial messages, many of which are uploaded by automatic “spambots.” Mollom screens all contributions before they are posted to participating websites.

Websites using Mollom send data they want checked to mollom.com, and Mollom replies with either a spam or ham classification. If Mollom is not certain, it will return an “unsure,” typically prompting websites to ask Mollom’s CAPTCHA server for an audio or visual CAPTCHA challenge to present to the user.

So unless you’re like Roach and put fifteen links in your comments, you may never see a Captcha. Now you’re all ham, the rest are spam.

BTW, what the hell happened to Roach?

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