[Mailman-Developers] CAPTCHA support

[Dean Suhr]

As the parent and caregiver for a disabled child (age 35) and a nationally known advocate for the 1 in 10 worldwide with one of 7,000 rare diseases, I have great respect for those with disabilities … and for those aging, like me, who are increasingly visually and audibly challenged.

With that said, each list serves a different audience and has a different mix of challenges with their potential subscribers.  For this reason I would suggest that CAPTCHA be an optional feature that the list admin configures (perhaps with a paragraph of helpful perspective that explains the challenges of CAPTCHAs which can be gleaned from the other comments in this thread).

While CAPTCHA is not a 100% perfect solution, I can imagine situations where a 25 or 50% solution is still incrementally but notably helpful.  

Let’s leave that decision up to the list administrator on a list by list basis. 

Dean

> On Mar 6, 2016, at 4:51 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> 
> David Andrews writes:
> 
>> Some audio CAPTCHA's are ok, some are virtually impossible to 
>> decipher. Also, audio CAPTCHAs do not work at all for deaf-blind
>> persons.
> 
> Thanks for going on record!
> 
>> So, while it depends, audio CAPTCHA is a mixed experience at best, 
>> and impossible at worst.
> 
> I kinda expected that.
> 
> Steve
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