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by stevekemp 4580 days ago
Years ago I sent a message to a stranger. I received an auto-reply saying "I got your mail, spam is hard, click this link to deliver it and prove you're human".

For a second I thought it was a cute solution to spam, then I realized we'd be in a world of pain if we mailed each other, and both of us replied in such a fashion.

I never mailed him again.

If I have to do work to contact somebody? Well I'll just ignore that person. Sorry.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge%E2%80%93response_spam...

Further reading if anyone is interested in challenge-response systems.