Mollom - Spam Control and More

April 24, 2008 by Jonathan 

I came across this service a little earlier in the week and can’t wait to give it a try! It is quite possibly the first real competitor to for filtering and control. The is all up in arms with praise for the -service.

Sometime next week I think I’ll toss it onto one of my Drupal sites and see how it does for a while. While I’ve been pretty happy with (which I use on this site), competition is always a good thing and everyone likes to detect and delete .

What appears to be the claim to fame with Mollom is that learns from it’s mistakes and your . Apparently one of the features in the pipe is filtering, like nuking inappropriate language from sites. While the sites that I’ve managed haven’t had much of a language problem, those things do happen and varying defense levels certainly help to quell managerial fear.

If you’ve used http://.com/javascript:mctmp(0); let me know your thoughts.

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