Just because a user has succeeded at the captcha does not mean he is
indeed human. It's been proven by various researchers that beating
captchas is entirely possible. Optical character recognition, like that
used in flatbed scanner software, can be used with a fairly high success
rate. Another
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote:
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> Dave Patton ha scritto:
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>> There is a MediaWiki Extension for reCaptcha [1]
>> http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/
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>> [1]
>> http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
>> http://en.wikipedia
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Dave Patton ha scritto:
> On 2009/07/04 8:00 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
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>> Anne Ghisla wrote:
>>> Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better?
>>> I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it
>>> is alrea
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> (sorry, that wasn't supposed to go to the whole list - still getting used to
> the iPhone...)
No - the problem is the odd setup of this list (unique in OSGeo?)
which changes replies to the list instead of the poster as
most other lists do.
