[webteam] site registration

[Sander Devrieze]

2008/4/29 Bart van Bragt <jabber at vanbragt.com>:
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>  Or, if web registration isn't an option, first try a big red warning with
> 'this registration is NOT for the jabber service'.

See my post about the CAPTCHA riddler module. As an additional
advantage it will also drastically reduce registrations from spam
bots, contrasting Florian's claims of CAPTCHA not working. This is
what we experienced at the Coccinella website: before we installed the
Drupal CAPTCHA modules, the Drupal Spam module had to mark spam
comments on a regular base, after installing the Spam module is only
very rarely needed (I think there was only 1 spam comment since the
begin of this year!). This is our spam-related setup:
* CAPTCHA riddler for registration form
* Text CAPTCHA for the comment form-->this is only asked for the first
comment of a user, for any later comments, also in later sessions the
user will not be teased with this CAPTCHA
* Spam module--> works really good

In case the Spam module detects a spam comment (which happened only
once this year), it will automatically unpublish the spam comment and
notify me (unfortunately that's only possible using old-fashioned
email ;-) ) so that I can delete the account of the spammer (in case
it is indeed spam). The unpublished spams will be expired
automatically after a few weeks. The important thing is that *nobody*
(except the admin) will see the spam. So if a spammer thinks he is
smart and manually answers the 2 CAPTCHAs to post his spam, he
actually is very stupid: his spam is seen by nobody, plus we stole
several precious "spam minutes" of this spammer.

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.