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Sunday, June 08, 2003
Yahoo Mail is Even Experimenting with the Little Critters
Recently, sending an email from my Yahoo Mail account, I was asked to type in one of those "submission codes" - visually represented as large letters on a grid pattern. The idea is to help them weed out spammers, they say. I don't know much about how spammers use Yahoo Mail accounts, but one presumes some have found ways to open accounts and send mail at lightning speed.
Anyway, I only saw the submission code once. Perhaps one time is enough to satisfy Yahoo Mail that my account is real. (Of course, since I paid $50 for the bigger inbox, how could it not be?)
We're going to be dealing with more and more of these gateways in our daily online activities. Insofar as they prevent people from using bots to do things that harm the rest of us, I say, great. Perhaps a short 3-point IQ test would be in order for certain message boards (Yahoo Finance comes to mind).
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Andrew Goodman
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