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Enable and Disable Captcha for posting.
Thread Starter: Jeff Zeitlin Started: 2/17/2008 1:33 PM UTC
Replies: 1
2/17/2008 1:33 PM UTC
Enable and Disable Captcha for posting.
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Jeff Zeitlin

In general, I think that CAPTCHA images are the best current defense against spammers (although I understand that some spammer have actually found an attack on them); however, requiring CAPTCHA for each individual post on a newsgroup configured "only registered users can post", PLUS requiring CAPTCHA for the initial signup, seems to me to be slightly overkill. I'd like a way to be able to turn off the CAPTCHA for posting.
2/18/2008 10:41 AM UTC
Re: Enable and Disable Captcha for posting.
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Jeff Zeitlin

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:33:09 +0000, "Jeff Zeitlin"
<newsadmin@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

In general, I think that CAPTCHA images are the best current defense against spammers (although I understand that some spammer have actually found an attack on them); however, requiring CAPTCHA for each individual post on a newsgroup configured "only registered users can post", PLUS requiring CAPTCHA for the initial signup, seems to me to be slightly overkill. I'd like a way to be able to turn off the CAPTCHA for posting.

I realize it's generally considered bad form to reply to one's own
posting, but I did some exploring while looking at some possibilities
with regard to appearance customization, and quite by accident, found
out that this feature is already in the current release of MPNews - when
an Administrator is logged in in view-the-forums mode (not
administration mode!), there's a link in the upper right corner "Admin",
which leads to this setting among others.