Have we gone too far?

I came across this when posting a comment on another local blog. It is called a CAPTCHA which stands for "Completely Automated Public Turning test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." Gotta love the acronyms that geeks come up with!

I thought this one to be particularly ridiculous. Are spam posts really that much of a problem? I author 3 blogs and have not turned CAPTCHA on for any of them. As a matter of fact, I don't even have comment monitoring on!

So is this ridiculous or is it just me?

-Jeff the Great