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Re: Accessible captchas?

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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Dec 4, 2008 11:50AM

I only briefly skimmed the Jared's article, but if I understand it
correctly, it said one of the methods was to look for urls in the form
fields and mark the message as spam if it finds them. That's a big problem
for web developers since a lot of the messages I get from potential clients
are like this:

"How much would you charge me to build a site that looks like
www.example.com?"

If all those messages get flagged as spam, I lose a lot of business.

In looking at all of the options, I think the best option may be to have a
very simple captcha question like "what color is the sky?"



On 12/4/08 7:20 AM, "Stephan Wehner" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> "The techniques are:
> * Detect spam-like content within submitted form elements