XAMPP compatibility with WinXP (after V1.8.2.x it isn't)

I've removed the Windows XP details from the page. Once an app stops supporting XP, we generally just drop it from the compatibility list.

Mollom is just an anti-spam filter. It's used by sites that use content management systems like Drupal (that's us), WordPress, Radiant, etc as well as custom sites built with PHP, Java, and most other web tech. Almost all public bulletin boards - including "simple" bulletin boards like phpBB, vBulletin, etc - and sites that allow public comments use an anti-spam plugin of one sort. You basically have to these days. If you don't, your site is overrun with spam. Requiring email registration, requiring solving of a math/word problem, and requiring captchas won't help. Even with reCapctha New-Style, email registration/confirmation, nofollow set on all forum links, StopForumSpam IP/email blacklisting, and Mollom bayesian filtering on content, we still have spam posts that get through that we have to manually filter. If you're posting anything anywhere online ever, it's likely being sent through one or more spam filters.

The reason that StopForumSpam and Mollom work better is because they rely on reporting from 10s of 1,000s of websites to help block spammers as they pop up on new IP addresses and they post new spam content. DIY solutions simply won't work anymore for preventing forum spam without highly inconveniencing the user. Using Mollom and StopForumSpam, for instance, has allowed us to drastically cut down on the number of users forced to solve a captcha to post. StopForumSpam hard blocks and won't allow posts from IPs and emails that are known spammers and have been caught posting spam to other sites. Mollom is used on posts that make it past StopForumSpam to analyze not only the IP address but the actual content using a bayesian filter. If it's definitely spam, it's not allowed to be posted. If it's definitely not spam, it's allowed. If Mollom isn't sure, it shows a capctha to be solved, as was the case with your post. This likely happened because you're a new user and you made a longer post with 3 different links in it.

If you'd prefer email because it's more private, it's not. Your email address, sending IP address, email server address, subject, content, list of included links, headers, etc is automatically put through multiple filtering and scoring systems to determine whether it's hard spam (delete it/block it outright), soft spam (send it to the spam folder) or ham (aka not spam, deliver to inbox). This happens to all messages sent to our email server - and just about every other server on earth these days - otherwise our email inboxes would be more overloaded than they are. We don't accept email for support because we'd be overwhelmed by real email messages as well. That's why we have the forums where everybody can help everybody.