I don’t like CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) . Most of them are difficult to figure out and sometimes – especially with Google – I have to try four or five times to get it right. But the spam robots must be stopped, so CAPTCHA  is one of the better ways to deal with them. You can learn all about CAPTCHA at CAPTCHA.net.

I prefer something easier to navigate than the CAPTCHA images, so I  use a math spam blocker instead which I obtained from these fine folks in Denmark. It poses a simple math test (see image left) and has done a great job of blocking those spam robots. I was getting over 50 spam ‘comments’ a day; now I don’t get any.

If, however, you prefer the more traditional CAPTCHA, I can recommend this plug-in.

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