paul at clubi.ie writes:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Colm Buckley wrote:
> >> ...or maybe not! It appears they may have fixed it in the past few days:
> >> http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/08/1605.html?_log_from=rss> >
> > Hah!
>> Done by applying spam-filtering on user-received email presumably?
> /me has argued here before that such an approach would be far more
> effective than CAPTCHA..
You can be certain that GMail, along with almost every other ISP and
MSP these days, is already doing this. All part of the ever-continuing
adversarial arms race against spammers...
--j.
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