KITTENAUTH support?

[richpee]

I know CAPTCHA is not supported by FQ (or at least that's what I read in forums.)

It took the spambots 48 hours to find my guestbook and to start pounding me. Does anyone here have experience with KITTENAUTH? (http://www.kittenauth.com/)

How about a simple "check this box to verify you're a human?" Would that foil spambots?

I am a .cgi retard so I know I'd spend a week trying to find a stray period that makes everything go haywire.

BTW, here are the KITTENAUTH requirements from http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/security/the_cutest_humantest_kittenauth

Technical How-To
Firstly you need a server that'll let you do the following things:
Store session information
Stream out images dynamically (to make sure images cant be traced back to filenames)
Allow posting of form information
So you're therefore ok if your server is ASP.net/JSP/PHP or any of the other server side languages that do the above list. Classic ASP wont let you do this unless you have access to an imaging component.

[richpee]

OK, so I've done a little more reading. This sounds cool, but looks like it's still in beta.

[kitchin]

I would try HumanAuth, an offshoot of KittenAuth....
http://www.gigoit.org/humanauth/

Do you have a recommendation for a good PHP form mail script?
Humanauth looks like it would be easy to drop in the top of another script.

[Randall]

Interesting.

Seems like you could take a strictly text-based approach to this, using checkboxes. Something like "Select the three sentences that refer to the natural world." The robots will see all of the text, but without some serious AI they'd never make the right connections, assuming your sentence choices are well done. And you could select the context at random -- one minute it's nature, the next it's about cars. Or Muppets.

And instead of choosing three out of nine, it could be three out of twelve.

Randall