[okfn-discuss] CKAN getting spammed again

Tue Feb 26 15:44:26 UTC 2008

As of last May, the words were being fed into partially unreadable texts on
the Internet Archive. I would assume it has expanded since then as 8,000
words doesn't seem like enough for the number of websites that are now using
reCaptchas.

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2097/saving-books-by-solving-puzzles

chad

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
wrote:

> Rufus Pollock wrote:
> [snip]
> > In particular what are
> > people's views on the effectiveness (and cost of implementation) of
> > things like:
> >
> >    * captchas (and texchas)
>
> Has anyone had any experience using reCAPTCHA?
>
>   http://recaptcha.net/
>
> Its a nice idea: stopping spam and trying to identify things that OCR
> software can't. I do wonder where all the identified words end up...
>
>
> Jonathan
>
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