[thelist] Captcha??

Johnathon Tinsley jtinsley at encryptec.net
Thu Nov 9 12:57:18 CST 2006




> You're trying to combat spam, which is your problem as a site admin.
> Your solution to this is to make it the user's problem, by challenging
> with a test. If the user cannot pass the test because of a disability,
> your user is going to be pissed you might be in hot legal water. The
> test serves no functional purpose and keeps users with a particular
> disability out.

The problem with that, is "send to" forms, whereby the user can send an
email to someone else using a form, usually with comments. Effectively,
you can send spam to someone using somebody else's connection.

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Johnathon Tinsley, Encryptec Limited
Email: jtinsley at encryptec.net, MSN: jtinsley at encryptec.net 





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