Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josiah Carlson wrote: > > Captchas like this are easily broken using computational methods, or > > even the porn site trick that was already mentioned. Never mind > > Stephen's stated belief, that you quoted, that he believes that even the > > hard captchas are going to be beaten by computational methods soon. Please > > try to pay attention to previous posts. > > I think people are trying too hard here - in other words, they are > putting more of computational science brainpower into the problem than > it really merits. While it is true that there is an arms race between > creators of social software applications and spammers, this arms race is > only waged the largest scales - spammers simply won't spend the effort > to go after individual sites, its not cost effective, especially when > there are much more lucrative targets.
My point was that spending time to come up with a "better" captcha in attempt to thwart spammers was ill advised, in particular because others brought up varous reasons why captchas weren't the way to go. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com