On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 20:45 -0500, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Gregory Hislop <hisl...@drexel.edu> > > I'm curious about this proposition: > If Captchas can be avoided by using OpenID, is that a more reasonable > alternative? > > > In my experience, the spamming stopped after requiring OpenID > authentication for new > users. > --Fred
I haven't found OpenID to be particularly user-friendly, and suspect some users may find it an insurmountable barrier (maybe I was just using a bad provider). However, if we could set up OpenID-or-captcha, that might work well. -Chris _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
