On 14/06/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Could it be that there is a mistake in the captchas?
The picture and
text not being the same so when someone types in the captcha it tells
them they got it wrong. Trying again and again would give you a
different captcha each time until you eventually get one that is
correct, and you can then log on. I don't know if different languages
have different captchas, but if they do, that would explain why it
appears to be a german problem only.
Don't rule it out, but I would consider such a problem less
likely...the captcha extension we're using has been around since about
1.6.0, and it's been in use on thousands of third-party sites since
then. I'd be inclined to suggest we'd have heard about this sort of
problem before, if it existed...
...then again, at this stage, I can't think of anything that would
actually be causing the error, so your guess is as good as mine.
Rob Church