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Perry Mowbray:
Also it's how I can stop spam yet still let anonymous users  post. Logged in users obviously don't need the captchas. Maybe there's spam technology that's smarter than most captchas, but from my experiences it's like this:
No captcha = Plenty of offers for viagra, used cars, penis enhancements etc.
Captcha = 0 - zero - offers but some perfectly valid anonymous posts.
-TucknDar (March 17, 2008, 05:34 AM)
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That's my experience too. After reading Renegade's Post I felt a little depressed, but thankfully that level of sophistication is not everywhere (Captcha still works for me).

I wondered about OpenID too, but is that moving toward everyone having a verified on-line identity?

nudone:
i look on them as being a little mini game to play or puzzle to solve, so they are fun.

perhaps i've just not had to deal with them as much as everyone else that is complaining.

Renegade:
After reading Renegade's Post I felt a little depressed, but thankfully that level of sophistication is not everywhere (Captcha still works for me).

I wondered about OpenID too, but is that moving toward everyone having a verified on-line identity?
-Perry Mowbray (March 17, 2008, 06:10 AM)
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The level of sophistication only gets worse...

OCR works quite well, but for a lot of old writings/books, it gets more difficult. There is a project (I forget the name at the moment) that is continually scanning and putting books into the public domain or at least making them available. They have a CAPTCHA API where you can use things that don't OCR well (i.e. They are OCR/CAPTCHA crack resistant) on your own site. The benefit is obvious. Put humans to work solving REAL problems that machines can't.

This same general technique is used by spammers though...

OpenID isn't a real solution to this problem. The spammers would simply attack OpenID providers in the same way they attack everything else.

f0dder:
Renegade: would that be Project Gutenberg? Can't find any reference to captcha on their site with a "I'm mega lazy" search, though...

KenR:
What are the alternatives? I can think of a few but surely the people who implement captcha must have thought of them too?
The problem with any alternatives that if they're used that is rolled out of millions of people then it's very difficult. On your personal site you can stop spam by asking what color grass is, but as soon as yahoo does that then it's worth for people to automate it. I guess if OpenId was more userfriendly then it would be worth using that instead. or Cardspace.
-justice (March 17, 2008, 05:05 AM)
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Justice:
I hate having to buy and use security products too. I'm not saying they are not important or that there is not a need for them, I'm just saying that I dislike them.

Ken

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