[Savannah-hackers-public] captcha insufficient

2011-09-18 Thread Karl Berry
Michael, all, Sadly, it seems the captcha is insufficent (not surprising, of course -- if human spammers signed up before, we can't stop them). User robomo: https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/usergroup.php?user_id=85295 signed up yesterday and posted a spam on a freetype bug report:

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] captcha insufficient

2011-09-18 Thread Michael J. Flickinger
On 9/18/11 2:29 PM, Karl Berry wrote: Michael, all, Sadly, it seems the captcha is insufficent (not surprising, of course -- if human spammers signed up before, we can't stop them). User robomo: https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/usergroup.php?user_id=85295 signed up yesterday and posted a

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] captcha insufficient

2011-09-18 Thread Karl Berry
I'm a little confused, you want this on the registration page? That's what I was thinking, yes. If the captcha isn't stopping them, My thought was that spammers very likely can automate captcha reading. And I don't want to propose making the captcha harder, either -- I have seen