Capcha is fine--albeit annoying--when the characters are at least discernable. But who here can continually, with 100% accuracy, tell the difference between a p and a P, or a Z and a z, with the images used here? I find that if I'm not refreshing the image to get something legible, I'm retyping the image because I got the case wrong!
One solution is simple - remove it! I visit many forums and none have such a requirement when searching. And some of the forums are much larger than this one, yet don't seem to suffer from the problem that Neal is trying to eradicate. Why not? Is subsim really that popular with spammers...or is there a more fundamental security loophole that allows the spammers to get in? If so, fix that rather than bandaid it and inconvenience legitimate members.
However, if Neal continues to believe that this is the panacea to all his spam problems, then there are other alternatives; update to a newer Captcha module that uses either a) more legible characters or b) a question/answer interaction.
The irony is, it seems that google has become the "crack" to Subsim's "DRM".
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