"Andrew McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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| I'm reluctant to mention the name of one particular tool I'm aware
| of, but as well as the above, it also has OCR to defeat CAPTCHA, and

How about asking a Python specific question, with answered filled in rather 
that multiple choice selected:  I would be willing to make up a bunch.

The initials of Python's founder.  ____
The keyword for looping by condition. ____
The char that signals a name-binding statement. ____
(I am intentionally avoiding question words and ? that would signal Test 
Question to automated software.)

If we anticipate users rather than programmers to register (as if so, it 
would be nice to collect that info to formulate sensible responses), then 
questions like
The orb that shines in the sky during the day. ____

| automatically creates throw-away e-mail accounts with a range of free
| web-mail providers for registration purposes.

Either don't  accept registrations from such accounts (as other sites have 
done), or require extra verification steps or require approval of the first 
post.  How many current legitimate registered users use such?

Terry Jan Reedy



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