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They wont remove it.

The captcha is to prevent spammers from adding massive loads of emails at a time.

Captcha is useless Cooks, spammers can get passed it. http://www.allspammedup.com/2010/01/google-recaptcha-cracked/

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RE: [split] captcha useless
Last time I checked, Microsoft didn't use reCAPTCHA. They may have switched since then, but I doubt it.
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depends what form of Captcha you use i guess. but at the end of the day spammers can still get through it.
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RE: [split] captcha useless
Everyone should start using Asirra: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asirra/
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i got a Feeling Fedoraforum uses that, but Mike spammers still get in.  only way to stop them, and thats to Moderate peoples First posts . if you knew how much a spammer can Make , you'd have pretty good bots  to bypass that crap

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RE: [split] captcha useless
Just checked, FedoraForum does not use exactly that.
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well no but again i aint seen any other sites using Microsofts asirra
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RE: [split] captcha useless
Since this is a messenger-based service, send the registrantion link in a conversation message. This is what I do for registration for one of my plus scripts, and works great. Its not overly popular, but I've also had zero spam and zero fake registrations.
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RE: [split] captcha useless
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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.

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they'll abuse it anyhow they can, spamming earns money to that spammer.  hell you could buy a New PC just from spamming
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