[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue May 15 09:32:06 CEST 2007

Terry Reedy schrieb:

"Andrew McNamara" <andrewm at object-craft.com.au> wrote in message news:20070515034743.2030F5CC4B5 at longblack.object-craft.com.au... | I'm reluctant to mention the name of one particular tool I'm aware | of, but as well as the above, it also has OCR to defeat CAPTCHA, and

How about asking a Python specific question, with answered filled in rather that multiple choice selected: I would be willing to make up a bunch. _The initials of Python's founder. ___ _The keyword for looping by condition. ___ _The char that signals a name-binding statement. ___ (I am intentionally avoiding question words and ? that would signal Test Question to automated software.)

There are two problems with this:

If we anticipate users rather than programmers to register (as if so, it would be nice to collect that info to formulate sensible responses), then questions like _The orb that shines in the sky during the day. ___

| automatically creates throw-away e-mail accounts with a range of free | web-mail providers for registration purposes. Either don't accept registrations from such accounts (as other sites have done), or require extra verification steps or require approval of the first post. How many current legitimate registered users use such?

This is impossible to find out, I think, since SF.net does not publicly show real e-mail addresses, instead, each user has an alias username at sourceforge.net.

Georg

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