On 22.09.2010 22:43, Phillip Jones wrote:

 --- Original Message ---

>  using a Captcha does the same thing as using a username and password
> without the need for such and until Google bought  the leading captcha
> software developer, It was as secure as having a user name and password.

No it does not. You cannot "log in" to a sight with just a captcha
routine but you CAN login w/o it by entering your user/pass. All captcha
is, is a challenge-response mechanism to insure that computer generated
access is not automatic via a script, etc.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

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*Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion*
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