Spam fighting

Submitted by ikhnaton2 on Thu, 16/02/2006 - 06:45.


Currently, I'm fighting spams manually, i.e. I check the site as much as I can and manually delete spam comments. Through the last two day, there's a spammer who post many spam comments and destort the site. Please, could u apply a powerful spam module on my site.

I found this spam module on (http://drupal.org/node/11104) if it could help.

Thanks In Advance,
Rami Sedhom
http://ikhnaton2.manalaa.net

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Another alternative for one-by-one deleting
Submitted by ikhnaton2 on Sun, 19/02/2006 - 14:14.

I found manually deleting spam comments one-by-one is a very boring process. So, I thought to delete them by executing query in the database module. From Administer Menu->database->query
DELETE FROM comments WHERE status=1 and hostname='spammer ip'


Where:

  • status=1 mean the comment is still pending for approve, 0 mean comment approved,
  • spammer ip could be common for large number of comments


Peace,
Rami Sedhom
http://ikhnaton2.manalaa.net

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Thanks
Submitted by Pronco@Eglug.org on Sun, 19/02/2006 - 23:57.

It works

http://pronco.manalaa.net

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spam module is a bit heavy
Submitted by alaa on Thu, 16/02/2006 - 09:32.

spam module is a bit heavy on resources, I can't provide it at the moment sorry.

I'm always working on improving server infra structure and a high traffic is expected to move out soon.

meanwhile requiring moderator approval is the way to go, that's what I do too.

btw admin block module is a great way to watch your comment queue.

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maybe but did not test spam module locally
Submitted by Pronco@Eglug.org on Thu, 16/02/2006 - 15:55.

maybe but didn't test spam module locally to feedback and as mentioned on drupal support that filtering spam is heavy on resources

BTW, when I was running spamassassin on my desktop machine it would go to 100% CPU use when mail was being filtered

What about captcha module? <- That might help.

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captcha requires patching
Submitted by alaa on Thu, 16/02/2006 - 16:29.

captcha requires patching core files, a big nono

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okay
Submitted by ikhnaton2 on Thu, 16/02/2006 - 09:53.

Okay Alaa,

At last find an execuse to use Admin Block...
Peace,
Rami Sedhom
http://ikhnaton2.manalaa.net

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I remove it manually too
Submitted by Pronco@Eglug.org on Thu, 16/02/2006 - 08:58.

60 Spam comments has been removed manually

/me found no powerful spam module listed in the module list or even captcha

At last, I've found only one solution is to make anonymous comment sets with my approval until I found the spam module or such so listed in the module list

BTW, there is 12 spam comments listed on my approval queue. Though I'll remove it manually

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Only Solution
Submitted by ikhnaton2 on Thu, 16/02/2006 - 09:34.

I think moderating anonymous comments is the only solution currently.
Thanks,
Rami Sedhom
http://ikhnaton2.manalaa.net

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