New Message: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] A way to block automated website creation

[Scott Granneman]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 11:36 am, webmaster at userland.com wrote:
> A new message was posted:
>
> Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$1312
>
> By: David Bayly (dbayly at udena.ch)
>
> I was thinking of implementing the picture of a codeword approach for
> member signup, in the hope of defeating the robots that were joining
> discussion groups, but I did some research first and was astonished to find
> that there are good enough techniques to do that progrmamatically in real
> time.

Not to mention that such captchas are notoriously unfriendly to folks with 
disabilities.

Scott

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