Re: practicalities of blogging

Subject: Re: practicalities of blogging
From: Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Claire Conant <claireconant -at- comcast -dot- net>, "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>, Tom Johnson <tom -at- idratherbewriting -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:42:31 -0800 (PST)

The device you're referring to is called a CAPTCHA, and is used to differentiate between human and machine-generated responses as a spam prevention measure. Though I've yet to come across an audio version of a CAPTCHA, provisioning for its use supposedly minimizes accessibility issues associated with the vision impaired.

You can read more about CAPTCHA via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha .

jan c.

----- Original Message ----
From: Claire Conant <claireconant -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>; Tom Johnson <tom -at- idratherbewriting -dot- com>; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2008 12:30:45 PM
Subject: Re: practicalities of blogging


I
know
Blogger
has
people
do
that
security
word
feature.
It's
set
up
in
the
options,
I
believe.
However,
I
promise
you,
with
the
hosted
Wordpress
I
have
not
had
spam
issues.
I
think
in
the
more
than
a
year
I've
been
blogging
I've
had
to
deal
with
-
literally
-
three
spam
comments
that
made
it
past
the
Akismet
spam
blocker.
It's
a
non-issue
for
me.

Being
required
to
enter
that
weird
word
code
doesn't
bother
me.
Now,
however,
Blogger
has
a
feature
that
once
you've
commented
and
entered
your
Wordpress,
Typepad,
or
other
blog
information,
it
remembers
you
and
you
don't
have
to
keep
doing
it.
You
just
enter
your
URL.
At
least
for
the
dozens
of
blogs
I
visit,
that's
how
it
works.

For
the
visually
impaired,
I
have
no
recommendations.

--------------------------------------------------
From:
"McLauchlan,
Kevin"
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
>
What
about
that
security
feature
that
forces
a
commenter
to
read
a
>
distorted
image
of
a
word,
then
type
in
the
exact
word,
as
an
>
anti-spamming
provision?
>
Is
that
available
as
a
standard
WordPress
feature?
Or
is
it
a
feature
>
that
must
be
supplied
by
the
hosting
service?
Or
is
it
just
a
plug-in
>
freebie?
Or
not
available?
>
Other?
>
>
I
know
I
recently
saw
it
on
a
blog
(didn't
pay
attention
if
it
was
a
>
WordPress
blog)
and
thought
it
a
smart
idea,
copied
from
other
>
security/authentication
situations
I'd
previously
encountered.
>
>
And
while
I'm
on
that
sub-topic,
are
any
of
you
dear
readers
offended
by
>
being
forced
to
indulge
measures
like
that,
or
do
you
accept
it
as
a
>
minor
inconvenience,
well
worth
the
trouble
to
keep
the
spammers
down?
>
>
Also,
what
alternative
should
be
provided
for
the
visually
impaired?



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