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The Mollom blog included some great news for IIS users this week:

Zion Security, a Belgium-based company specializing in the security analysis of web sites and systems, has used Mollom's open API to develop a Microsoft IIS module utilizing Mollom to detect and prevent comment and posting spam.

This module is unique in that it is a HTTP module coded for Microsoft IIS, comparable to an Apache module, and allows Mollom to potentially expand to a number of ASP/IIS based systems.

I have accepted the overzealous spam filtering on g.d.o (if you included a link, you MUST be a spammer!) under the theory that we should live with our own tools– if a brand new user has to put up with it, I should also until I make it better for everyone.

As of today, I'm done with that noble approach.

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CAPTCHA is a great way of preventing spam. Another method of spam prevention is using a web service that scans the content for spam-like content. One popular choice is Akismet. Dries has launched a new web service called Mollom. The thing that makes Mollom neat is that it presents a CAPTCHA when the published content is thought to be spam. Very neat service!