On-Rev antispam (& reCAPTCHA)

[Warren Samples]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 16:46 +0100, Medard wrote: 
> Bonjour !
> 
> After all, on my modest On-Rev blog, I am beginning to get some spam ;->
> 
> In my blog, comments are written to separate text files -- so it's easy
> to delete and regenerate them when they are filled with spam ;-)
> 
> But it is turning into a tedious work!
> 
> I thought of a "reCAPTCHA" solution (now owned by Google), but it seems
> a little laborious -- and mostly I don't understand exactly how to
> operate with On-Rev...
> 
> The "client" side is quite clear (a form with some script statements),
> but I don't see how to code the "server" side...
> 
> They do have some sample code, but not too much -- and no "irev" code,
> only PHP code (I am willing to do that in irev code)
> 
> Searching the Nabble archives, I saw that Pierre "Wo...ords" used some
> antispam, but he seems to be using a simpler solution (number of chars
> of the email address)
> 
> What are your thoughts about that?
> 

Hello Medard,


Personally, I have always disliked captcha and in its current form I
absolutely hate it. I can hardly read the damn words and sometimes it
takes forever to get one I can read. Have you considered some variant of
"obvious answer"? You may find this not too tricky to script, presenting
a randomly selected question or task from a list and checking the user
supplies the correct matching response. This might get a little
cumbersome if there are number of languages you'd feel the need to
support gets long, though. 

Good luck!