On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 14:22 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Uh, wouldn't the addition of a "captcha" on the signup page make > joining up without requiring additional group memberships easier and > more bot-proof? That would also prevent the sponsors having to deal > with a slew of botted initial contacts. Well, I'm just trying to match up with what's actually happened, as opposed to debating whether the Fedora sysadmins could handle the spam problem differently, I'd rather not get diverted too far down that track. But in general I'd say our sysadmin folks are pretty good at what they do and I'm inclined to trust them. I'm nowhere near as experienced in such matters as they are, but it's my general understanding that captchas are a long way from foolproof, and the better captcha systems tend to be ones Fedora does not find palatable (as they tend to involve roping the user in to be an unpaid image recognition worker for Google...) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
