Anyone having this problem?

[Scott]

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Yesterday, a neighbour while trying to send mail using yahoo, was
presented with a screen that had funny characters in a box and was
asked to type the characters into a blank line before the mail would
be sent. These characters are similar to what you see for secure sign
ups at some sites, but I have never heard of it for sending email.
I know this isn't xp issue but perhaps someone here can point me in
the right direction

 

[Guest]

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It's an anti-spam strategy implemented by Yahoo.

Spambots can't "read" and respond to the dialog
you describe, and therefore can't (well, can't send
as much) spam to the recipient.

You're fine.


"Scott" <diabloe76@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u1m8i1h56cok5bdkq9cr4r6sfn79pmqet6@4ax.com...
> Yesterday, a neighbour while trying to send mail using yahoo, was
> presented with a screen that had funny characters in a box and was
> asked to type the characters into a blank line before the mail would
> be sent. These characters are similar to what you see for secure sign
> ups at some sites, but I have never heard of it for sending email.
> I know this isn't xp issue but perhaps someone here can point me in
> the right direction

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

hotmail does it to me from time to time
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computer newbie


"V Green" wrote:

> It's an anti-spam strategy implemented by Yahoo.
>
> Spambots can't "read" and respond to the dialog
> you describe, and therefore can't (well, can't send
> as much) spam to the recipient.
>
> You're fine.
>
>
> "Scott" <diabloe76@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u1m8i1h56cok5bdkq9cr4r6sfn79pmqet6@4ax.com...
> > Yesterday, a neighbour while trying to send mail using yahoo, was
> > presented with a screen that had funny characters in a box and was
> > asked to type the characters into a blank line before the mail would
> > be sent. These characters are similar to what you see for secure sign
> > ups at some sites, but I have never heard of it for sending email.
> > I know this isn't xp issue but perhaps someone here can point me in
> > the right direction
>
>
>

 

[Scott]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

Thanks for the response was concerned it was spyware..

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:42:01 -0700, "matchstich"
<matchstich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>hotmail does it to me from time to time