Sameer D'Costa wrote: > On the other hand we do not want to > lose anonymous comments. I wish all software that required user input on > the internet used catchpas for anonymous users. I'd look at the server logs to see whether the comments looked like they were left by a human (loading CSS and JavaScript, navigating at random times, etc.) before worrying about excluding non-humans: hiring people who can and will work for fractions of a cent per manual comment spam is getting more common all the time. Registration certainly does have its disadvantages, though: my application for forum membership never got approved, so you either are deprived of my priceless comments, or are free of my posting spam, depending on how you look at it. Phil Ringnalda