Re: captcha

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)PostgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: captcha
Date: 2006-08-10 16:11:05
Message-ID: 20060810161105.GB27902@fetter.org
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:50:31PM +0300, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could someone please work on captcha thing for our comment
> submission page? We have lots of list members in here, but I can't
> see much progress on this.

IMHO, you shouldn't see any "progress" and shouldn't try to make any.
Captcha is broken entirely at the design level
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha>, as neither prevents access by
bad actors nor allows blind people--or others without graphical
browsers--access at all.

> If noone is willing to do, I'll put random photos of developers
> instead of captcha and ask for their names.

See above.

Cheers,
D
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