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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Mar 13, 2007 2:50AM

I know that you know this: no need to reply. I just need to share...

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I hate chaptchas. Four times over the weekend (on completely different
sites) I had to use the damn things and *every *single *time* I got it
wrong at the first attempt. One was so unclear that I asked Kev to take
a look and between us we agreed what the character was. Ha! we were
both wrong.
One of them was particularly galling because it was at the bottom of a
form. One of the firlds on the form was a date and it had a handy
dandy JavaScript date picker... which told me that I didn't have
authority to use it! So I had to type the date in manually but there
was no clue as to the format they required. So I took a guess and got
it wrong... twice (so three attempts). And each time the B!@@%y captcha
changed!
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Thank you for your time,
Penny