Hi,

Luistxo Fernandez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb:
> However, I'm not so convinced with that form. Anyone can fill that signing
> Bill Gates, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that's what our friend Erral (also present
> at this list) will get...
and, I'm sorry to pick on Igors work like this,
one could also easily build a script walking
over this site, following the link and sending
every poster one or many emails with any form
of content and all emails are originated from
Igors site and perhaps even with his real email
address collected at Gmame or somewhere in Google.

> I would rather prefer a system like the one at
> Gmane, with the email encoded as a curious image.
I'm unsure about this, as these captcha pictures
violate section 508 - barrier free accessibility.
(Don't know whether the equivalent EU decree is on
the way or already passed.)
Which makes it nearly impossible then to integrate
COREBlog in an environment where this is an issue.
And I'm not sure, whether the Gmame solution with
using a hashed email-address with an acknowledgment
will really solve that matter, plus imho it is an
obstruction that may prevent posters due to its
fussiness.

To the second I read about several methods to break
computer generated captchas, so these things will
only help as long as the other side didn't take
it further.
One example:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mori/gimpy/gimpy.html
Human generated captchas - what is the opposite
of "cold", what colour has the block on the left -
are harder, but these quiz- or puzzle captchas
irritate sometimes "normal" users and perhaps
might even generate a new job description
- SPAM bot trainer. And if there are only
a few variants, such a trained bot could
still break its way through.

Considering this, and that the uniqueness of the
blogosphere is the linking in between, I don't think
that there is a real need for a private messaging
within a blog-system. As then we could use any
arbitrary forum-software. If somebody leaves
its email, it should be visible for the blog-owner,
as most of the times the comment corresponds to a
blog entry. And there is still the option, that
someone can leave his email address in the comment
itself.

Regards,
Frank

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