risks digest had an interesting post describing a novel solution spammers found to the captcha problem. captchas are those images of distorted text that sighted people can read but most computer programs can't that are used to prevent bot from signing up for free email accounts. just show them to someone trying to get into a free porn site then use the answer to sign up for free email accounts.
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