FW: [Web4lib] Spam-resistant forms service

[Gimon, Charles A]

I rolled my own in PHP to protect a form in my personal site. Duck,
duck, goose!:

http://www.gimonca.com/personal/pageme.php

Next step is to make it quack.

It's hardly strong security--I wouldn't do this if personal or financial
data were involved--but for my purposes, it's worked beautifully. It's
kept me spam-free for weeks.

If any spammers out there are amateur ornithologists, though, I'm in big
trouble.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library


> I've often wondered why there aren't cognitive CAPTCHAs like "Select
the option that doesn't belong: beagle, collie, 
> dachshund, eggplant" or "How many fingers do most people have?"

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