Re: http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/ must beclosedor otherwise require verified passwords.

Posted by Robin Millette on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/http-civicaccess-ca-wiki-must-be-closed-or-otherwise-require-verified-passwords-tp770p780.html

On 12/11/06, zara <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am just as sympathetic as anyone else to the issue of problems caused by spam and while the alternative you have implemented is better than no access at all so long as admins respond in a timely manner (which is certainly not the case everywhere), I must point out that it is still not ideal in terms of equal access as it places an additional burden on the user.

I agree with Catherine that captchas are not generally done right.
Here's what the acronym is supposed to stand for: "Completely
Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart".

Recently, I came accross another service called Bot Bouncer [1] that
supplements the usual image with an audio recording. The services
depends on OpenID [2] but I hope, if we ever add a login to our site
it will use that as a means of dealing with decentralized identities.

[1] http://botbouncer.com/
[2] http://openid.net/

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