On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:12:18PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > could have MM3 ship with a CAPTCHA system and/or support for a class > > of CAPTCHA systems in the default web UI, that would be super. I'd like to re-emphasize the fact that what I would like is some sort of plugin support. Want this kind of CAPTCHA? Take these simple steps....
> But, captchas? Pre-defeated. With all due respect to your experience, I don't think CAPTCHAs as a class have been defeated, in the sense that the goal is not to completely defeat all spam, but rather the goal is to mitigate at relatively low cost to ourselves and at high cost to the spammers, and from personal experience I can say that reCAPTCHA has served that purpose well when I have deployed it. If there's some other non-CAPTCHA approach (or set of approaches) that we could use to help reduce spammy signups, then I'm all for it. I guess my hope is that we'd have something in place that reduces the signups themselves rather than imposing work or workflow changes on moderators or list members after they've joined. If that's necessary, fine, but let's try things that happen at the signup step, too, yes? Even something as simple as requiring a hidden form field NONCE and conservative rate limits on public signups, neither of which require javascript or images.... Cheers, -- Cristóbal Palmer ibiblio.org metalab.unc.edu _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9