On 2013-01-22 3:30 PM, "aude" <aude.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF <lwell...@wikimedia.org >wrote: > > > That was not the end of the problem I was referring to. We know our > > specific captcha is broken at turning away machines. As far as I am aware > > we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty of > > it. > > > It's at least impossible for blind users to solve the captcha, without an > audio captcha. (unless they manage to find the toolserver account creation > thing and enough motivated to do that) > > I am not convinced of the benefits of captcha versus other spam filtering > techniques. > > Cheers, > Katie > > >
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