<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 12:17 PM Ian Kelling <<a href="mailto:iank@fsf.org">iank@fsf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This email was at the bottom of the page<br>
<a href="https://identity.kde.org/index.php?r=registration/enterDetails" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://identity.kde.org/index.php?r=registration/enterDetails</a><br>
There was also a link<br>
for contacting syadmins, but it required having an identity login.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Ian,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for reaching out to us.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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If you won't remove the captcha, perhaps you could manually create an<br>
account for me Ian Kelling <<a href="mailto:iank@fsf.org" target="_blank">iank@fsf.org</a>>.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While we can't remove the reCAPTCHA (as our services are the target of significant abuse unfortunately), we can create an account for you manually.</div><div>It looks like from our records that you started the account creation process previously, but didn't complete the activation.</div><div><br></div><div>I've now resent your account activation email.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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When I submit the form, it fails telling me to run the captcha. I see<br>
recaptcha in the list of blocked proprietary javascript in my browser.<br>
To understand some of the problems with recaptcha, see<br>
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sadly reCAPTCHA is a reluctantly accepted fact of life, due to the significant amount of abuse our services receive.</div><div>(We would have to blacklist freemail providers, and even reCAPTCHA isn't bullet proof as nothing stops a human spam bot - sadly something that is ever prevalent these days)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ben</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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