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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Rivka, I didn't take it personally, I just hadn't known what those 
things are called until today.
No, I didn't actually type in the captcha. I rarely have any trouble 
with them, but I do need a place to type it in in order to do it.
We'll get this figured out.....

Steve

On 5/30/2014 12:32 PM, Road's End Farm wrote:
> Captchas are generally an automatic part of the system; it's not
> suspicious of you in particular, just of everybody in general.
>
> Did you actually type in the captcha into the box provided? If not, you
> need to do that. If so, you must have read it wrong; the system should
> give you another one. Keep trying until you get one that you can read
> correctly. One of the problems with captchas is that, in the process of
> trying to make them impossible for computers to read, they're often
> difficult for humans to read also.
>
> -- Rivka
>
> On May 30, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Steve via nafex wrote:
>
> > Today, I looked up the word "captcha". I wasn't familiar with the word
> > but now I know what it means:
> > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/captcha?s=t
> > It seems that the system doesn't believe that I'm a real person. I'm
> > not sure why.
> > I just now tried signing up using Explorer as a browser instead of my
> > usual Firefox browser. Same result.
> >
> > Lawrence, (or anyone else), what triggers that "invalid captcha" result?
> > Lawrence, I'll send you the email address I'm trying to use so maybe
> > you can fix things for me.
> >
> > Steve