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On my blog ( http://www.mountebank.org/blog ), I'm using a wordpress plugin called "authimage." It puts a little picture of a word (a "captcha") for commenters to type in before they're allowed to comment. The idea is that it prevents comment spam. Authimage calls a php function "veriword." That's fine, it all works, but the manual gives this instruction: "Put these in secure directories (not accessible by web users): • config file (veriword.ini) • font files • background files • dictionary file" I don't know how to do that! Right now, those files are accessible to web users. How do I make them inaccessible?

I've tried smartftp, cuteftp, ws_ftp, and bulletproofftp, and although they're all good, the one I seem finally to have settled down with is filezilla. It's pretty much 6 of one, half a dozen of the other, but for some reason that's the one I prefer.

You guys are QUICK! Thanks a lot, Don!

Could my blog be part of the family? Thanks! 1. Your URL: Mountebank 2. The name of your site: Mountebank 3. Description: A blog about culture, politics, education and technology 4. Personal/Blog 5. Link: I have a link to TCH in the right-side sidebar, in the "Meta" section

Thank you Robert (and Bruce). I'm new to the forums, but I've been very happy with TCH for a long time. You guys are great.

I've had very good luck with using AuthImage http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376 to prevent comment spam. It's a captcha, which means that there's an extra step for people leaving comments, but it's a pretty easy step and it's worked perfectly, 100% of the time. However, I recently ran into a first-time problem with trackback spam. I turned off trackbacks completely, which took care of that, but maybe I should give spam-karma a try if it works to prevent trackback spam, too.