Hi, I think, there is still a need to protect e.g. comments and account registrations against spam and it seems that CAPTCHAs are still the best technology to do this.
AFAIK OSM Wiki uses the original reCAPTCHA (which helps Google to translate books or decode house numbers!). OSM help, the forum and the User's Diaries (including help) currently require a regular account. I found e.g. his discussion [1] which seems to be never implemented. If somebody knows more pls. reply. Now, I got an idea of (yet) another re-CAPTCHA which is somehow more user friendly and builds on keepright data. Question: 1. Do you also think there still is a need for CAPTCHAs? 2. If yes, do you know of any volunteering OSM related webapplications, which would be willing to replace (re-)CAPTCHAs with a service which helps OSM? Yours, Stefan [1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=16021 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
