From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 21:25:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: www@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0310916A422 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:25:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-0-0-cust107.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.104.168.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF7D43D48 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrirw.private.submonkey.net ([192.168.10.23]) by shrike.submonkey.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FCkQz-000Nwx-RE; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:25:09 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.0.050811 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:25:04 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Skye Poier Message-ID: Thread-Topic: www/93772: PR submit page captcha didn't work Thread-Index: AcY5iMbIBXjCtKV8EdqVBgAUUSJIlg== In-Reply-To: <200602240300.k1O30L1S056706@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: "www@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: www/93772: PR submit page captcha didn't work X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:25:11 -0000 On 24/2/06 03:00, "Skye Poier" wrote: > The following reply was made to PR www/93772; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Skye Poier > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: www/93772: PR submit page captcha didn't work > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:53:19 -0800 > > Well, perhaps the error page should be fixed to say "timeout" or > "captcha expired" then, instead of "does not match", so that people > don't waste a bunch of time going back and forth and typing it in over > and over thinking they're not reading it right, or making a typo, like > I did. There's not really any way for the code to tell whether you made a code up though - it either exists in the database or it doesn't. > "Yes, the token does indeed expire in some number of minutes; this is > why we suggest people edit the information offline and then submit." > > Nowhere on http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html does it say anything > about a timeout It will in 24 hours' time. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere