[clug] Re: Using a forum system for CLUG

[jm]

Andrew Janke wrote:
>>>>   http://recaptcha.net/
>>>>         
>>> What an awesome concept. I had no idea that this kind of thing existed (the
>>> digitising books bit, not the captcha bit of course).
>>>       
>> Note that captchas can be broken though... The simplest solution being
>> to pay people to type the answers for you.
>>     
>
> Sure but at least in this case then we can all feel a bit warm and
> fuzzy given that spammers will be subsidising the digitisation of old
> texts. :)
>
> Of course if you want to pay people to (help) SPAM for you I can't
> think of a single SPAM protection mechanism that will work.
>
>   

Here's an example of an attack on recaptcha - they had to resort to 
streamlining human interaction.

http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/

Jeff.