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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Mar 13, 2007 9:40AM

On 3/13/07, tedd < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> At 12:09 PM -0400 3/13/07, John E. Brandt wrote:
> >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.
> John:
>
> What kind of CAPTCHA were you using?
>
> tedd
There's also the possiblity that the "spam bot" is, in fact, a human
spammer: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/06/1217240

Emma
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