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Why use Mollom?

After the launch of this website, I care little about the website spam problem, In fact I did not install any anti-spam module, cause there 're few visits at the beginning . But something happen today, spam finaly appear on the comments of my website. fortunately, there 's only teens of them. and I could remove them easily.

But eventually, every webmaster has to deal with the spam problem. All we want is something simple and does not intrude with our normal website publishing that could still protect us from horrible spam !

Here 's a screen of the spam on my website:

Drupal have a few module for this purpose, and I install the popular Mollom.

Install the Mollom module

To install the Mollom module, first we have to have an account on Mollom website, the registration of mollom account and basic usage is free, though mollom do provide advanced feature if you 're willing to pay for it, but in most of the time, the free edition is enough for most of us. after the registration, you will get a pair of keys(public key and private key) that you should save for later use.

When you get your mollom account registered, follow the following step to configure mollom

1. Download drupal mollom module here.
2. Extract the module under the 'sites/all/modules' directory.
3. Enable the Mollom module at 'Sites building->modules'.
4. Configure Mollom at 'Sites configuration->Mollom', where you will need the public key/priviate key .

Enter the key and now Mollom should be working against the spam!

In the comment management screen, we could select all the previous spam and report to Mollom to delete.

and I hope that I need not return to this topic if mollom could protect me from the spam!