Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 07/10/07 07:18

Scripsit dorayme:

> In article <4692e0c1@news.orcon.net.nz>,
> Alistair George <noname@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Hi has anyone got any ideas about putting a captcha solution inside a
>> standard web page?
>
> B says they suck so I don't know if you should.... look up the
> threads on this at this newsgroup (go to google groups and type
> in alt.html, then when there, type in "captcha")

Also note the recent news about spammers' tools that penetrate through
captchas.

Of course, a "standard web page" does not need the protection that captchas
are supposed to give. A _service_ (such as free e-mail service) might need,
but captchas are a wrong approach anyway, and illegal in civilized
countries, since they discriminate against various minorities (typically
including the blind).

As usual, it would have been best to start with stating the _problem_ that
captcha was meant to solve.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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