Captchas was Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
Richard A Steenbergen
ras at e-gerbil.net
Wed Aug 16 08:32:10 UTC 2006
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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