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Re: CAPTCHA Question

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From: Kevin Miller
Date: Apr 5, 2010 5:15PM

We chose to filter comments and forms on our site using Mollom (mollom.com)
for spam prevention. While the service does fall back on CAPTCHAs, you'll
only get them if the system thinks your submission is spam.

Mollom is free to a certain point, and their audio CAPTCHAs are better than
most.

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:17 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> One way to deal with this issue is to research the owners of the domain and
> contact them through other channels to address this issue. When doing a
> Woisy search it usually shown the registered address and telephone number
> of
> the domain owner.
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Foliot" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] CAPTCHA Question
>
>
> > LOL, I didn't say it was perfect, but if we don't *TRY* then we're guilty
> > of letting it continue...
> >
> > JF
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto:webaim-forum-
> >> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Carin Headrick
> >> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:02 PM
> >> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> >> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] CAPTCHA Question
> >>
> >> If you are too busy to do much, consider as a
> >> minimum that the next time you encounter a CAPTCHA that you take the 30
> >> seconds it will take to email (or use the form/comment box) to ask the
> >> site owner who forced you through that hell to consider offering OpenID
> >> sign-in _along with_ the CAPTCHA.
> >>
> >> That is, if you can submit comments without *another* captcha.
> >>
> >> Carin
> >>