I recently got fed up of spam. Well, that happened a long time ago. What bothered me recently, enough to take action, was false positives, i.e. real email that fell into my spam folder. My primary email address, michael@mahemoff.com, gets about 3000 mails a day…so what goes in my spam folder, stays in my spam [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Captcha'
Got Captcha? Antispam on AjaxPatterns
May 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments · SoftwareDev
I’ve been blabbing on about how I’m going to open up the AjaxPatterns wiki for as long as it’s been online (about a year), blah blah, talk is cheap. Anyway, it’s a few steps closer now. The main issue has been protection against spam – some entrepeneurial folks behind numerous proxies have discovered there’s a [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Captcha·Links·MediaWiki·Patterns·Spam·Wiki
Captcha Impossibillis
March 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments · HumansAndTech
(Update: Thanks ImageShack for deleting my images.)
I was wrong, the third character is apparently a nine.
There ought to be a Captcha gallery/blog for all these. Apparently I’m not the only one who feels that way. Oh well, blame the spammers.
But more to the point, what’s up with this Captcha brought to you by the letters [...]
Tags: Accessibility·Captcha·HCI·Wordpress
