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Aditya Divekar writes:
But with the new recaptcha, I would like to know if the stand is the same.
ReCAPTCHA looks very good, though I haven't used it. However, the professional spammers are quite capable of hiring humans to do their work, and even conceal it as being charitable work (digitizing old books, for example). On the other hand, unsophisticated spammers are easily turned away with simple textchas (eg, the Python sites use questions like "What is van Rossum's first name?" -- no, I didn't try "Just" :-).
I conclude that spam is a disease and evolves resistance to antispam technology at rates that resemble the ability of bacteria to evolve resistance to antibiotics, and we just have to keep a careful watch on every mail service we administer to see what the spammers are up to in our neighborhoods.
Steve
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Stephen J. Turnbull