>>>> "TS" == Tim Starling
<ts4294967296(a)hotmail.com> writes:
> Here's one idea -- a switch to toggle a
captcha.
That's an extremely good idea. Only one problem: I believe that there
are patent issues around captchas. Not saying that Wikipedia couldn't
get a patent license, but it'd have to stay out of the distributed
MediaWiki code.
I'm not sure about this and I'm not turning up any terribly
informative Google hits except this one:
http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/captcha/history.htm
~ESP
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