Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 10:42:29PM +1030, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
I've been forced to use Lynx over sluggish SSH tunnels before. With image-only captchas I'd be locked out in the cold, dark and wet.
If you've actually bothered to read [[CAPTCHA]], you'll realise that they're a pain in the arse, you insensitive clod.
Ah, after reading all these messages, I finally find out what you are all talking about. You are right, they are a pain in the arse. Do not go that way.
[[Bduke]]
As you say, captchas are nasty, inconvenient and user-unfriendly. However, sometimes they are the lesser of two evils. Where the other evil is automated vandalism is one of those cases.
-- Neil