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RE: [split] captcha useless
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Originally posted by Alias
depends what form of Captcha you use i guess. but at the end of the day spammers can still get through it.
It's not about preventing 100% of spammers. Nothing can (without sacrificing a great deal of user friendlyness) and nobody claims it will do it.

It's about discouraging most of the human ones and making it harder for automated systems to bypass it. And quite frankly, even the simpliest forms of captcha will discourage many of the human spammers. Bottom line is that using a captcha is not useless at all and it does prevent some human and automated spammers from abusing a service.

This post was edited on 01-17-2011 at 06:00 AM by CookieRevised.
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RE: Anyway to backup contacts? WLM 2011 - by Hank on 01-15-2011 at 10:16 PM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Mike on 01-15-2011 at 11:34 PM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Hank on 01-15-2011 at 11:52 PM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Mike on 01-16-2011 at 12:12 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Hank on 01-16-2011 at 12:24 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Mike on 01-16-2011 at 12:38 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Hank on 01-16-2011 at 12:49 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by MeEtc on 01-16-2011 at 12:50 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by CookieRevised on 01-17-2011 at 05:54 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Hank on 01-17-2011 at 06:05 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by CookieRevised on 01-17-2011 at 06:17 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Hank on 01-17-2011 at 06:22 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by CookieRevised on 01-17-2011 at 06:27 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Hank on 01-17-2011 at 06:49 AM
RE: RE: [split] captcha useless - by CookieRevised on 01-17-2011 at 07:50 AM
RE: [split] captcha useless - by Hank on 01-17-2011 at 08:50 AM


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