wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-23 Thread Nicolas Le Cam
2008/10/23 Zachary Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Captchas in general are not so good, and there are much better anti-spam techniques out there (Such as asking an actual question. There are phpbb mods which allow you to input a list of questions (with perhaps links to wiki pages with answers)

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy White
Not sure what they are complaining about - worked for me first time around. I think some people might have problems with: 1. Entering lower case text instead of caps Well, I'll have Jer add a note to that effect right away. Can't hurt. 2. Not knowing (and not willing to find out) who is the

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:37:22AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi-- I'm a new user of linux and wine and was looking for some help with a database program that ALMOST runs. I found an entry on the forum with a problem similar to mine and wanted to comment, so I decided to

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Kai Blin
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 18:25:19 Andreas Mohr wrote: This is now about the 30th time (no, REALLY, this __IS__ the 30th time, or possibly even 50th!) that someone has severe issues with WineHQ forum registration, in the last 12 or so months. Could someone _please_ finally do something

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy White
Right. So the forum software is broken, and all of the Wine devs would rather fix Wine than the forums? Sounds like a good case for ditching the forums. I disagree violently. The case for the forums is clear; users prefer them by a rather large amount. If we're going to provide user facing

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:19:46AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote: Right. So the forum software is broken, and all of the Wine devs would rather fix Wine than the forums? Sounds like a good case for ditching the forums. I disagree violently. The case for the forums is clear; users prefer

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread James Mckenzie
Kai Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Oct 22, 2008 12:36 AM wrote about wine users forum registration issue On Tuesday 21 October 2008 18:25:19 Andreas Mohr wrote: Given that most people on this list don't seem to use the forum and thus don't notice, how about the people who actually use the forum

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Zachary Goldberg
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know *why* these people suffer? Is there something specific to their monitor or is it just a general struggle with captchas? Finally, is there someone who would be willing to help users through this? The

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Zachary Goldberg wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know *why* these people suffer? Is there something specific to their monitor or is it just a general struggle with captchas? Finally, is there someone who would be willing to help

Re: wine users forum registration issue

2008-10-22 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
Not sure what they are complaining about - worked for me first time around. I think some people might have problems with: 1. Entering lower case text instead of caps 2. Not knowing (and not willing to find out) who is the current maintainer. IMHO people should be able to figure those out