On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:03 PM, James Cameron <quozl at us.netrek.org> wrote: > > I don't think that will work. For a captcha to be successful against > the evolution of new robot attackers, it has to be a novelty. If you > use a captcha used by someone else, then as soon as it becomes > recognised it is broken. I don't see any of us willing to set up a > unique captcha with Netrek theme, given the size of the audience for > this wiki (ourselves, not the players), and the ease of setting up > something like HTTP basic authentication. Ah. > Mind you ... should we ever need a captcha for something in Netrek, such > as registration of new player accounts ... then we could start with the > random image nest used on netrek.org screenshot section, and set up > several questions per image: > > http://netrek.org/img/scrshots/scrshot20.png > > 1. what is the name of the planet? [Alpha Centauri, or Centauri] > > 2. what is the three letter abbreviation for the planet? [ALP] > > 3. which ship is firing a phase? [F7, or 7] > > 4. how many orion (blue) torps can you see? [2] > > 5. which ship is cloaked? [b] > > 6. etc, etc etc. I like it. Zach
