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Lots of spam on forum now???

Has there been this much spam before in the forum? I have never seem so much spam here before
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  • let's hope the admins of this Forum can 'CAPTCHA' these bot-using cretins. In fact, am surprised such security is not already in place.

    The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University.
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    • Protecting Website Registration. Several companies (Yahoo!, Microsoft, etc.) offer free email services. Up until a few years ago, most of these services suffered from a specific type of attack: "bots" that would sign up for thousands of email accounts every minute. The solution to this problem was to use CAPTCHAs to ensure that only humans obtain free accounts. In general, free services should be protected with a CAPTCHA in order to prevent abuse by automated scripts.



    just sayin' and lÔÔk Ma!, no SMA needed! I believe it's free..............
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  • let's hope the admins of this Forum can 'CAPTCHA' these bot-using cretins. In fact, am surprised such security is not already in place.

    The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University.
    .....
    • Protecting Website Registration. Several companies (Yahoo!, Microsoft, etc.) offer free email services. Up until a few years ago, most of these services suffered from a specific type of attack: "bots" that would sign up for thousands of email accounts every minute. The solution to this problem was to use CAPTCHAs to ensure that only humans obtain free accounts. In general, free services should be protected with a CAPTCHA in order to prevent abuse by automated scripts.



    just sayin' and lÔÔk Ma!, no SMA needed! I believe it's free..............
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