Spam world! How to control them?
Its really furstrating for any webmaster when they come on this issue. The number of spam mails, comments in blog posts keeps on increasing. Controlling them has been a huge pain for many people. This Article gives an insite on how to control spams to maximum and listed some of the common and best practices.
reCAPTCHA
The best way to combat these spammers is to put a captcha in your comments section so people have to prove they are human. reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
http://www.google.com/recaptcha
Akismet – the best bet for WordPress users.
(Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging.
http://akismet.com/
WP-SpamFree
An Anti-Spam Plugin for WordPress! Blog Spam Protection. It virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Includes spam-free contact form feature as well. Also it maybe possible to change to “NoFollow” links which will help reduce Splog, SPam in bLOGs
http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/library/wp-spamfree/
Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior works with just about PHP (PHP) based website to help prevent automated systems from running rampant on your site. This includes things such as WordPress, MediaWiki (MediaWiki), Drupal (Drupal) and more.
http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/
Defensio.com
A spam filtering plugin that supports Open ID and provides you with an RSS feed of both your “good” and “bad” comments.
http://defensio.com/
