Comments on: CAPTCHAs, who needs them? http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/12/captchas-who-needs-them/ I'm gonna say this once and once only. Stay out of Camberwick Green! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: blork http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/12/captchas-who-needs-them/#comment-24619 blork Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:34:25 +0000 http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/12/captchas-who-needs-them/#comment-24619 Hmmm. Interesting post. I use CAPTCHAs because I was getting tons of spam and it was easy to set up. But I'm on Wordpress, so I also have Askimet, but I didn't enable it because... well, because I didn't find a good explanation of how it works (not that I tried so hard). Thanks to your post, I'm going to revisit that. I also do filtering, which catches at least half a dozen a day that slip through the CAPTCHA. But I'm definitely going to look into the Askimet, because I don't like CAPTCHAs even though I use them. Hmmm. Interesting post. I use CAPTCHAs because I was getting tons of spam and it was easy to set up. But I’m on Wordpress, so I also have Askimet, but I didn’t enable it because… well, because I didn’t find a good explanation of how it works (not that I tried so hard).

Thanks to your post, I’m going to revisit that. I also do filtering, which catches at least half a dozen a day that slip through the CAPTCHA. But I’m definitely going to look into the Askimet, because I don’t like CAPTCHAs even though I use them.

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