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). A ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly