Re: Testing mail list

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Testing mail list
Date: 2007-12-19 16:33:42
Message-ID: 20071219163342.GB32137@crankycanuck.ca
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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

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