OK, I know I recommended requiring one for the bots, but it was absolutely ridiculous. Took me eight, yes, eight tries to get one that was legible (and I was asking a friend to help me with each new image I got).
(pickle)
Wow, I must have gotten lucky. My first one was OK.
i got mine on the first try too.
OK, maybe me and Thomasca are blind. One of the ones I got was this:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2394/rtxh7.jpg
Wasn't DAGC0G (that's a zero in this silly font, btw), and will forever remain a mystery to me.
I'll get rid of that Captcha font (the one that produced the 0-ish thing) if I can figure out which one it is...
And yeah, I'm not too fond of the numbers in this font either. It's a shame, because I really like the rest of the font.
1234567890. Weird.
Re: Image Verification Code
Hmmm... maybe I should go without the image background. I'll try that for a while, although it might make it easier for bots to solve it.