Couldn't agree more. I just had to sign up for a hotmail account to do some testing for my opt in email lists, and the captcha they use now is almost totally illegible. Worse than that though, they offer an option to listen to it, which sounded like it was read out in a noisy airport lounge. I genuinely couldn't make it out.
I understand that of course for things like signing up for webmail accounts they need to be extra careful, but that was a really really horrible user experience. Yuck. Will -----Original Message----- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2008 23:40 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form Spam Attack >Captcha drives me crazy. Sometimes on other folks sites I have to sit >there and "guess" the freaking crooked letters four or five times >before I get it right. Is that a lower case or upper case "W" - damn, >got it wrong .... Sheesh.. AMEN! I detest captcha with a passion, it's rare that I get it right the first time if it's more than 3 or 4 letters. I do a little better with the newer ones that give you a word or two (rather than random letters) but it's far from "nice". I personally use Cfformprotect. What I like about it is that it *works*...and the user doesn't have to do anything! Can't get more "user-friendly" than that. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309909 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
