Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I think this system is silly, error prone (it's way too easy to hit the
> wrong key, particularly if traffic is large) and slow. If we want to
> reject spam in a web form, we shouldn't be using a mailing list spam
> moderation system. I think we should be using a "captcha" system like
> recaptcha.
Captchas are annoying and have been pretty much broken by the spammers
anyway, other than the ones that are so hard that humans can't reliably
do them either (see: annoying). We should *not* do this. Especially
so in view of the comment upthread that bug-form traffic is only a
small part of the moderation load.
regards, tom lane