Alan Horkan wrote:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I dont know if we have any users of accessibility technology (or lynx for that matter) helping out but if we put the password in an image then we definately wont in future.
Reading a passphrase from an image every time is far worse a likely to discourage contributions than needing to register once.
Why decide between these? Offer registration for hassle free editing/the visually impaired[0]/lynx users[1]. Less regular wiki users who'd be put off by the need to register can use a simple image CAPTCHA, and spammers can head somewhere else.
John
[0] I'm thinking a graphical SVG editor will have fewer of these than most gnome applications.
[1] Apparently these are suspicious, and probably hackers anyway: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/28/031248&tid=172&tid=1...