[Pmwiki-users] Re: More spam in the sandbox

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:07:32AM +0200, Nils Knappmeier wrote:
> Third idea about spamming is this captcha-like thing 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha). The idea is to automatically 
> create images
> of letters and digits that are so distorted that a computer cannot 
> identify them. The edit form could get such a picture and
> only save the page if you enter the digites correctly into a text field.
> Then you could have special passwords for bots that are allowed to 
> modify the site without having to recognize the image.
> 
> What do you think about this? Helpful, unnessecary, too difficult?

User-unfriendly. I think this is okay for forum registrations, etc. but
having to enter a number each time I edit a page? Nah...

-- Balu