Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/10/06 20:53

Dustin wrote:
> I am developing a website where users can sign up for a service. They
> essentially can become a memeber. It will allow anyone to sign up, but
> I need to make it so only humans can sign up. I need to avoid any
> automatic scripts that could create tons of bogus accounts.
>
> What I believe is the best solution for me is to have an image appear
> as part of the form they fill out to get the account. In the image
> will be scrambled text. The user must decipher the text in order to
> create the account. That should take care of just about all bots.
>
> The only way I can think to do this is to manually create a ton of
> images to use for this. Does anyone know of a more simple way to do it?
>

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