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Re: I hate captchas *

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From: tedd
Date: Mar 13, 2007 9:20AM

At 12:09 PM -0400 3/13/07, John E. Brandt wrote:
>I'm not sure captchas even do what they are supposed to do.
>
>I was using phpBB on one of my servers and despite the captcha element, I
>was getting spam-bots by the dozen each day. It just got worse and worse so
>I took the phpBB offline.
>
>It sounds like we need a new method.
>
>~j
>
>John E. Brandt
>Augusta, Maine USA
>www.jebswebs.com

John:

What kind of CAPTCHA were you using?

tedd
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