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And there is the essence of the need for captchas ;)

You need to scale, so you employ computers instead of people. Now you have to have computers run a reverse turing test. Otherwise, it's much easier for spammers to scale as well.

It's easy to cut down on spam if you don't accept any incoming mail.



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