From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O0trE-0000VZ-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:53:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62B9DE07A4; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA87E079F for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:52:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5156C1B4123 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:52:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.807 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.807 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.697, BAYES_05=-1.11] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id U5yvsio84VbI for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A78EA1B40F5 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:52:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0tqA-0000Hd-2b for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:52:30 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:52:30 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:52:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4BB77D99.3090105@allenjb.me.uk> <4BB78F75.50100@gmail.com> <20100410041041.GA8599@linux1> <20100410152509.GA25713@linux1> <4BC09BE4.8020901@gmail.com> <20100410171841.GA5063@linux1> <4BC0C2CA.1000600@necoro.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a6345b25-16aa-4374-9720-174d1bd0594b X-Archives-Hash: 12165e6c693e854f24c32ce16f2e9ca0 Ren=C3=A9 'Necoro' Neumann posted on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:26:18 +0200 as excerpted: > Both points also apply to the audio captcha, as you have to a) > understand the word and b) from this infer the correct writing. Which > becomes even more difficult as English is a language, where the > spelling/pronounciation-relation is quite loose (plus you have > British/American spelling varieties). Good point. Captchas are a bit like radiation or chemo treatments that try to kill th= e=20 cancer (spam) without killing the human, aren't they? If the anti-cancer= / anti-spam treatment's to be worthwhile at all, it seems one must accept=20 that it be potent enough that it will kill some of the good guys in the=20 process. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman