Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-14 Thread skip
Paul == Paul Rubin http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid writes: Paul Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Instead of displaying an obfuscated image of a nonsense word, display six randomly chosen photos, where five are of the same thing but not the same image. E.g. you might show

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Instead of displaying an obfuscated image of a nonsense word, display six randomly chosen photos, where five are of the same thing but not the same image. E.g. you might show five different kittens and a horse. The user has to click on the image that

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-13 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
From: Leif K-Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: For a text only solution, consider putting up a natural language question such as: What is the third letter of 'national'? What is four plus two? How many eggs in a dozen? Fill in the blank: Mary had a little

Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread skip
Is there a module out there that will generate an image with a random text string such as the confirmation images you see on various websites? I'm thinking I'm going to have to add that to the forms on the Mojam websites. Over the past couple weeks we've begun to get lots of spam submission

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Mitja Trampus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a module out there that will generate an image with a random text string such as the confirmation images you see on various websites? They're called captcha images or captchas for short. Googling for python captcha returns several hits; see what you like... --

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Jorge Godoy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a module out there that will generate an image with a random text string such as the confirmation images you see on various websites? I'm thinking I'm going to have to add that to the forms on the Mojam websites. Over the past couple weeks we've begun to

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread skip
Is there a module out there that will generate an image with a random text string such as the confirmation images you see on various websites? Mitja They're called captcha images or captchas for short. Googling Mitja for python captcha returns several hits; see what you

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:56:49 -0600, skip wrote: Is there a module out there that will generate an image with a random text string such as the confirmation images you see on various websites? Mitja They're called captcha images or captchas for short. Googling Mitja

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Steven D'Aprano wrote: For a text only solution, consider putting up a natural language question such as: What is the third letter of 'national'? What is four plus two? How many eggs in a dozen? Fill in the blank: Mary had a little its fleece was white as snow. Cat, Dog, Apple, Bird.

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread skip
Steven Keep in mind two serious problems with captchas: Steven - they're impossible for the blind or people using text-only Steven browsers to see -- even mere colour blindness can make some Steven captchas impossible to solve; Steven - sometimes they're too difficult

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is to run the submissions through SpamBayes and silently direct any which score as unsure or spam to me for review. Users wouldn't even need to know their submissions were being scrutinized. there's also: http://akismet.com/ python

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Ben Finney
Leif K-Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steven D'Aprano wrote: For a text only solution, consider putting up a natural language question such as: What is the third letter of 'national'? What is four plus two? How many eggs in a dozen? Fill in the blank: Mary had a little its

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a module out there that will generate an image with a random text string such as the confirmation images you see on various websites? The W3C recommends more-accessible alternatives to vision-based CAPTCHAs: URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ -- \

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Ben Finney wrote: Leif K-Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steven D'Aprano wrote: For a text only solution, consider putting up a natural language question That wouldn't work as a true CAPTCHA (Completely Automated *Public* Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), since making the