Posted by dorayme on 07/11/07 00:07

In article <slrnf977la.n6q.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> On 2007-07-10, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> > Scripsit Bergamot:
> >
> >> I like this one that was developed as a WordPress plugin, but you
> >> should be able to adapt it for more general use.
> >> http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/
> >
> > Compared with the usual discrimination of the blind and nauseating trouble
> > to other people, that method discriminates against arithmetically
> > challenged
> > people and causes nauseating trouble to other people. Why should I do some
> > math exercise just to prove myself human?
>
> In any case a math exercise is a particularly bad test for
> distinguishing between a human and a bot. A script could easily be
> written to parse the sum, calculate the answer and submit it.

One of the objections against captchas is that they are often too
hard to read. The easier to read, the easier for a robot to do so
too. But to read and understand is the toe hold. I would be very
surprised if we could not construct a question that anyone who
could understand English would be able to answer easily but any
present generation robots would fail.

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dorayme

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