Phil, I'm sorry you stumbled on that stupid application form on the forums. I hadn't realized it was so inquisitive when I installed the forums software. Also, the fact that applications are subject to validation is completely pointless (we're not like that :) Sorry again, -m On 11/20/05, Phil Ringnalda <philringnalda at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > gregarius-dev mailing list > gregarius-dev at sinless.org > http://sinless.org/mailman/listinfo/gregarius-dev >