[LAU] muse registration fails

Jeremy Jongepier jeremy at autostatic.com
Wed Oct 21 14:20:11 UTC 2015


Hello Ralf,

On 10/21/2015 04:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Websites using CAPTCHAs are a PITA. You most likely did _not_ enter
> the correct text. If you have bad luck it could take days, month,
> years, before you entered the correct text. Some CAPTCHAs are easy to
> use, but I always feel oppression if I need to enter a CAPTCHA.
> 
> Usually it's impossible to distinguish aob from aOb or a0b and some
> CAPTCHAs seem to be case-sensitive, at least they use numbers and
> letters. Depending to the kind of CAPTCHA an o or O could be a D or c
> and a even a t could be a r.
> 
> Even some terminal fonts make it impossible to distinguish an I from a
> l or a 1.
> 
> Unfortunately they use the same CAPTCHAs if a user wants to contact
> them.
> 
> For Linux only it's easier to request the output of cryptic commands,
> users just need to copy and paste from a terminal. Uncomfortable if
> somebody wants to register from a mobile phone, or if the command is to
> cryptic, e.g. "foo 'bar'" without the quotes is often copied as
>                foo 'bar with a mising '

Let's try to help each other instead of rambling. The OP inquires about
ideas, not opinions ;)

Thanks,

Jeremy

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