Terry Reedy schrieb: > "Andrew McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | 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.)
There are two problems with this: * The set of questions is limited, and bots can be programmed to know them all. * Even programmers might not immediately know an answer, and I can understand them turning away on that occasion (take for example the "name-binding" term). > 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? This is impossible to find out, I think, since SF.net does not publicly show real e-mail addresses, instead, each user has an alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
