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Re: Captchas was Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:32:10 -0400
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? -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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