Re: captcha - Mailing list pgsql-www

From David Fetter
Subject Re: captcha
Date
Msg-id 20060810161105.GB27902@fetter.org
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In response to captcha  (Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-www
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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