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Dylan Garrett dylan.garrett at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 22:42:12 CET 2007


Oh, oh, I know! "wnc"! Do I win any cake? Or is it a lie just like the grief
counseling? :(

On 10/29/07, Stefan Sperling <stsp at stsp.name> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 05:02:59PM -0400, Dylan Garrett wrote:
> >    Yay, I managed to remember the pass on my first try. :)
>
> Great.
>
> If the password ever gets useless to keep spammers out, we can easily
> extend the password patch into a question/answer system like we
> have on the forums. The MoinMoin wiki is written in python,
> so modifying it is no big deal.
>
> >    Ironically, I don't even get most normal capcha's on my first try.
> >    (stupid colorblindness) :(
>
> Stupid captchas.
>
> I think a question/answer captcha like we have on the forums
> with questions that require some research (and be it reading the FAQ)
> is a much better solution to keep spam out than automatically generated
> captchas. It also helps keeping out stupid questions.
>
> Even human drones unknowingly solving captchas for spammers while
> surfing for porn probably won't be bothered to solve questions
> like "What is the name of the wireless network configuration
> script in DSLinux?" :)
>
> --
> stefan
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