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

[Raymond Chen]

That's one of the reasons I chose hosted WP instead of running on my own.
Anti spam/robot is not trivial. Another reason is the file system of the SD
card of my Raspberry Pi keeps crashing. ^_^


On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:40 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
> wrote:

> This is one of the reasons that I'm moving my WordPress based sites over
> to straight HTML...  WP is just such a hacker/spam/bot target these days.
>
> On 13 April 2018 at 12:37, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>>
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