[WikiEN-l] Re: Viability of the open model

Fri Jun 18 18:10:41 UTC 2004

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:20:57 +0200, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Yes, phil is correct.
>
>I think this is a little step that would not cost a lot. It would not 
>bother a human too much and add a layer of protection.
>During registration, display a little image, with an number in it 
>(something simple, number 1 to 9 randomly), and ask the user to enter 
>this number in an empty field.

You'd want more than one number, because a bot could guess it right 
one out of 10 times, and it would be trivial to run the bot 
multiple times until it succeeds.

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