Re: Testing mail list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Testing mail list
Date
Msg-id 20071219163342.GB32137@crankycanuck.ca
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In response to Re: Testing mail list  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:15:37AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> hoping to draw responses from careless people?  I've heard of web
> comment-spammers who try to get other people to decode captchas
> for them this way.

Yes.  This is the latest spammer trick.  They get people all over the globe
to decode the captchas.  It's way easier than programming to decode the
captchas (which itself isn't that hard -- there are plenty of toolkits out
there that will decode such things for you).

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