[kwlug-disc] OT: wordpress.com email follower spam

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

> It depends on whether solving a captcha is cheap or expensive. In my
> experience the Drupal captchas were cheap to solve and can be solved
> via automated means (but this was a few years ago). Weirdly the ASCII
> captcha did a better job of keeping people out than the other ones.

I can't speak for Wordpress.

But for Drupal, I abandoned all captcha solutions.

The one that works for me is the 'antibot' modules. It uses Javascript, and
will filter all automated bots.

It will not stop an actual human though, but on my web sites, these are
not frequent and are not an issue so far.