Did someone write an anti-spam module in django?

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kernel1983

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Jun 14, 2007, 9:20:32 AM6/14/07
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My weblog has got lots of spam.

I'll try to deal with them.

Any one has done this job?
Would you mind share your code?

Christian M Hoeppner

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Jun 14, 2007, 9:28:56 AM6/14/07
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On django snippets, there's a piece of code to integrate akismet into the
django comment app. I'd rather write my own app instead of hacking on the
sources, but that's up to you.

Good Luck,
Chris Hoeppner
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Julio Nobrega

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Jun 14, 2007, 9:49:39 AM6/14/07
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I was getting around 5 spams daily on my website when it had 1.5k
impressions daily. I've implemented a very simple anti-spam solution
which has eliminated every spam, while I've tripled my traffic.

It's called "negative captcha", and it's very easy to implement. One
day some spammers will learn how to defeat it but for now, it's doing
the job :)

http://damienkatz.net/2007/01/negative_captch.html


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Kelvin Nicholson

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Jun 14, 2007, 9:58:44 PM6/14/07
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> It's called "negative captcha", and it's very easy to implement. One
> day some spammers will learn how to defeat it but for now, it's doing
> the job :)

As Tony the Tiger would say, GREAAAAAAT!

Thanks for pointing out this technique, I think I'll go this route
instead of the Kitten CAPTCHA route.

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SmileyChris

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Jun 14, 2007, 11:13:05 PM6/14/07
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> Thanks for pointing out this technique, I think I'll go this route
> instead of the Kitten CAPTCHA route.
Here's a snippet for that http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/131/

If you do want to run with the captcha method, here's a reCAPTCHA
field implementation:
http://smileychris.tactful.co.nz/ramblings/recaptcha/

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