[Web4lib] web forms

[Jennifer Vine]

The cooperative digitization aspect of reCAPTCHA is definitely appealing,
but I'd encourage everyone to consider the accessibility of captchas before
implementing them: http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/.


Jennifer Vine
User Interface Designer
Stanford University Libraries


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Paul R. Pival
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:41 AM
> To: Kerry Sullivan
> Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] web forms
> 
> reCAPTCHA has worked very well for us since we implemented earlier this
> year: http://recaptcha.net/
> 
> Plus your users will help with OCR projects while helping to fight the
> spam :-)
> 
> Paul R. Pival
> Public Services Systems Librarian
> 401D MLT
> University of Calgary
> Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
> 
> Phone: (403) 220-5650
> Fax: (403) 282-1218
> 
> 
> 
> Kerry Sullivan wrote:
> > I have little to no control over our web presence anymore, but we
> recently
> > experienced a massive spamming of all of our online forms for the
> entire
> > organization.  We received thousands of emails overnight from
> multiple
> > forms.  We have since disabled our forms and our web programmer is
> working
> > on creating the forms in Flash.  He is extremely backed up and has
> not made
> > much progress and in the meantime our users do without.
> >
> > I have noticed that there are a number of libraries' websites that
> have
> > these forms.  How do they have them hanging out there and not get
> spammed
> > like we did?  What are we doing wrong?  I welcome any suggestions or
> shared
> > frustration from a similar experience.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Kerry
> >
> > ______________________________
> >
> > Kerry Sullivan, MLIS
> >
> > AHEC Library & IRC
> >
> > (Tel) 704.355.3874
> >
> > http://www.charlotteahec.org
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