Re: CAPTCHA

"Tanner Lovelace" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Karen Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> You know, I have a friend who was getting lots of spam on the
>  Ruby-on-Rails site he made for his wedding. He has a solution that I
>  thought was interesting.
>
>  He is registering javascript events on his inputs now. (Checking for
>  onblur I think) The scripts that were spamming him don't trigger them.
>  If no event is triggered, the submission is ignored.
>
>  What do you think of his solution?
>
>  K

So, then, his website is completely unusable, then, if people
turn off javascript or if they use a text based browser like lynx?

Doesn't sound like a very good solution for a generic website.
Since his, however, is specific for him and he probably knows
all the people that will be using it, it's probably ok.

Cheers,
Tanner Lovelace

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