Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Help fight spam

You know those strings of text that you are sometimes required to enter before completing or submitting something on the internet? The purpose is to help fight off spammers, I suppose because it requires somebody to actually read it and then manually re-enter it into the text box below.

Anyways, I generally have no problem with this. Yes, it can be annoying - but oh well, it's really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, right?

BUT - come on, at least make the stupid string of characters somewhat legible! Seriously, I just came across one and had no idea whether it was "fnc" "emo" "tuu" or what. It could have been anything, I had no idea. It was impossible to tell - obviously I guessed wrong and got a second chance with a different string of characters. That one I got right - lucky for them, or else I might have to get all sue happy and get them for causing unnecessary emotional distress.

:-)

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