RE: Stopping automatic (spam) submissions of rings and sites

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [RLopen] Stopping automatic (spam) submissions of rings
and sites
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, November 28, 2006 2:36 pm
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Richard Lowe wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Richard Lowe wrote:
>>> Guys, CAPTCHA is the way to go.
>>
>> Why, if a simpler and more convenient solution does the same job?
>
> Lots of people have cookies turned off (Me for instance) for security
> reasons.

Not allowing session cookies does not make browsing more secure, it's
paranoia. ;-)

I seriously doubt that you have cookies completely turned off, Richard.
In that case you wouldn't be able to use Ringlink at all...

> CAPTCHA always works.

Not for me. About 50% of the times i fail to correctly interpret those
blurred characters.

> It's become the accepted way to handle this among retailers and users
> understand it.

It's _one common_ way, but I for one don't like it. :)

/ Gunnar

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