Terry Reedy schrieb:
"Andrew McNamara" <andrewm@object-craft.com.au> wrote in message news:20070515034743.2030F5CC4B5@longblack.object-craft.com.au... | I'm reluctant to mention the name of one particular tool I'm aware | of, but as well as the above, it also has OCR to defeat CAPTCHA, and
How about asking a Python specific question, with answered filled in rather that multiple choice selected: I would be willing to make up a bunch.
The initials of Python's founder. ____ The keyword for looping by condition. ____ The char that signals a name-binding statement. ____ (I am intentionally avoiding question words and ? that would signal Test Question to automated software.)
There are two problems with this: * The set of questions is limited, and bots can be programmed to know them all. * Even programmers might not immediately know an answer, and I can understand them turning away on that occasion (take for example the "name-binding" term).
If we anticipate users rather than programmers to register (as if so, it would be nice to collect that info to formulate sensible responses), then questions like The orb that shines in the sky during the day. ____
| automatically creates throw-away e-mail accounts with a range of free | web-mail providers for registration purposes.
Either don't accept registrations from such accounts (as other sites have done), or require extra verification steps or require approval of the first post. How many current legitimate registered users use such?
This is impossible to find out, I think, since SF.net does not publicly show real e-mail addresses, instead, each user has an alias username@sourceforge.net. Georg