Thanks to PFGCaptchaField by 4Teamwork, it’s now easy to stick basic CAPTCHAs into Plone forms that you’re creating with PloneFormGen.  It’s a nice bit of work that takes advantge of Jarn’s underlying collective.captcha product.  What I especially like about it is that it makes it possible for non-technical end-users to quickly build forms that can’t be easily abused.

As my colleague David Glick, Alex Limi and I have recently PLIPed, I think it’s time for the Plone core to CAPTCHA-protect its key anonymously-accessible forms, such as the join_form and the contact form.  If we get consensus on collective.captcha as the way to go, and Martijn Peters from Jarn is willing to continue to caretake collective.captcha, we’re willing to do the work to integrate it.