On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Chris Tyler <ch...@tylers.info> wrote:
> 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 See this page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:OpenIDLogin <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:OpenIDLogin>Lot's of easy options for many users. --Fred
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