René 'Necoro' Neumann posted on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:26:18 +0200 as excerpted:
> Both points also apply to the audio captcha, as you have to a) > understand the word and b) from this infer the correct writing. Which > becomes even more difficult as English is a language, where the > spelling/pronounciation-relation is quite loose (plus you have > British/American spelling varieties). Good point. Captchas are a bit like radiation or chemo treatments that try to kill the cancer (spam) without killing the human, aren't they? If the anti-cancer/ anti-spam treatment's to be worthwhile at all, it seems one must accept that it be potent enough that it will kill some of the good guys in the process. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
