[thelist] CAPTCHA

Stephen Rider evolt_org at striderweb.com
Fri Aug 7 10:14:47 CDT 2009


On Jun 10, 2009, at 10:16 AM, steven streight wrote:

> As we all know, you often have to retype CAPTCHA characters, as many  
> as 5 times in some cases I recall, until you get them right. Those  
> letters or numbers are all twisty curvey and very hard to read.

I recommend reCAPTCHA.  By definition it's text computers have trouble  
reading, but I've never (okay, very rarely) had trouble figuring out  
what the word or text is. (And my eyesight ain't so good):

http://recaptcha.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

Stephen



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