Jesse the man wrote:
There's a way around bots. - there are
"authentication" devices which
present a string of numbers from an image that one has to correctly
type in if he or she wants to register.
That's called CAPTCHA, which Nicholas referred to:
(If your next suggestion is "CAPTCHA", I have
a two-word response:
"blind people".)
We only recently had a poll on Abe's suggestion (albeit suggested by
someone else), and I think it's clear that the community doesn't want
such a system implemented.
Having spent five or six years interacting with people on the internet,
I've found that it's the troublemakers who will go to great lengths to
irritate people while the more useful people don't have the time to
register.
John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])