Re: spam protection for user notes

This CSS-obfuscation would generate problems with text-only readers (lynx or braille terminals), so I don't think it's a good idea. Viele Grüße Sebastian Am 21.02.2006 um 13:49 schrieb Jared Williams:

How about this one, I've been experimenting with, uses plain HTML obfuscating the code with various css techiques. http://ren.dotgeek.org/ex/captchacss.php http://ren.dotgeek.org/ex/captchacss.phps Jared

I don't think that the math-test would prevent much spam. It's very easy to automatically read and solve these equations. Would a verified note submission (e.g. the user provides his eMail- address and he gets a message where he has to click on a link to publish his note) be a better solution? Personally, I think that even that may be bypassed. Viele Grüße Sebastian Am 21.02.2006 um 12:56 schrieb Friedhelm Betz:

Derick Rethans wrote:

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Dan Scott wrote:

Spammers suck. I would be in favour of implementing a basic mathematical skill-testing question a la Lukas Smith's blog at http://pooteeweet.org -- it is a protection method that is still accessible to the visually impaired, unlike classic CAPTCHA.

Agreed, spammers suck, but CAPTCHAs too.

Yeah, I don't like CAPTCHAs either. Mainly for the reason Dan outlined.

Don't let the spammers win! :)

Not at all ;-) What about: "basic mathematical skill-testing question" ? Friedhelm