On 12/7/05, Ed Colmar <ed@greengraphics.net> wrote:

Hey All

I'm wondering if anyone has a module that will generate the randomized images that are so common these days in registration forms to verify that the user is a human. Or, alternativly, other strategies to block spamming of registration forms by bots or other automated methods.

Search the list - this came up before. I recall pycaptcha http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycaptcha http://freshmeat.net/projects/pycaptcha/ IIRC, when I downloaded it I ran into some problems running it. Indeed, the demo site for it has an ImportError. Rob

Ed Colmar wrote:

Hey All

I'm wondering if anyone has a module that will generate the randomized images that are so common these days in registration forms to verify that the user is a human. Or, alternativly, other strategies to block spamming of registration forms by bots or other automated methods.

W3.org warns that using CAPTCHA on the Web is actually a bad idea as it poses problems for those who are blind, have low vision or have a learning disability such as dyslexia -- the document examines a number of potential solutions that allow systems to test for human users. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-turingtest-20051123/ Just for your reading room ;) Michael -- http://zope.org/Members/d2m http://planetzope.org