SPAM on PLUGSITE

[Technomage Hawke]

Steve,
don't worry about it. the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I agree that CAPTCHAS are inherently evil. I have problems on walmartmoneycard.com. I cannot log in because of the stupid CAPTCHA and it seems that walmart isn't going to do anything about it either.

I am not familiar with drupal at all, so I have no idea what turing tests that it has at its disposal. Are there any other tests that don't involve locking the blind (and deafblind)?

-Eric

On Dec 15, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:48:03PM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>> We simply cannot allow these bots to spam the site; PLUG is an older Drupal
>> that doesn't include the "human verification" tests.
> 
> These human verification tests you refer to, often include CAPTCHA.
> As far as I'm concerned, most CAPTCHA schemes are evil and I say that
> because blind people who use audio or Braille screen readers can never
> parse the information displayed in the little pretty pictures they
> show.  Some audio CAPTCHA drills make for an alternative but then deaf
> blind users are still excluded.  I don't know aht all human type tests
> are available in Drupal but I would be most interested in evaluating
> any of these if PLUG should move to such Drupal versions and wish to
> implement any of these.
> 
> Sorry for any whining but just looking out for my rights to equal
> access. <smile>
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