[91863] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Captchas was Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Wed Aug 16 04:32:52 2006
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:32:10 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
Cc: paul@jakma.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200608160921.07125.simonw@zynet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:21:06AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> The reason people use image recognition is it is something (most) humans find
> very easy, but requires considerable investment of effort (or resource for
> self training) to teach computers, and readily permits of variations ('click
> the kitten' being a good example).
How many CAPTCHA tests can a human making minimum wage complete in an
hour? Ask the post office people who input handwritten zipcodes.
A tougher question might be, what does any of this have to do with NANOG?
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