On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Clint Savage wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Ian Weller wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: >> >> > At present there are no known problems, can you get them to send a screen >> >> > shot of the capcha our way? >> >> > >> >> Here's seven fairly unreadable ones, out of a random sample of about >> >> 40-50 refreshes. >> >> >> >> http://ianweller.fedorapeople.org/captcha/ >> >> >> > >> > Pooh, this is an opinion one, I can read each of those without issue. >> > We'll have to see what options we have. >> > >> > -Mike >> >> I don't think it's an opinion one as much as what a particular eye can >> see. In my case, I can read 'most' of them with little to no effort, >> but there were at least 3 that I had to squint or move closer to read. >> I've had perfect vision all of my life. What I don't understand is >> the value of having colored boxes that make it extremely difficult for >> the eyes to focus on the letters. >> >> BTW, I understand what a captcha is and its intended purpose, but I >> would argue that this is only one step of many for preventing computer >> bots to invade the fedora project. Mitigation is the goal here, I >> don't think it's possible to eliminate all bots, but it is possible to >> eliminate a few potential contributors because of something simple >> like this getting in the way. >> > > it's a new technology to us, I'd rather try to get it fixed before > abandoning it. > > -Mike Oh, I wasn't suggesting abandoning it, I think it's great. I just wonder if we could tone it down some. Sorry if I implied such a thing, I am excited to see that we're using CAPTCHA. Clint -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
