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Marketplace Spam

From: Administrator
Text: Jp4$YFa3
Date: 25 Aug 2008
Time: 14:03:40 -0400
Remote Name: 68.215.151.71

Comments

It has come to our attention that there have been multiple spam postings in the Marketplace over the past several weeks. These postings are being done by web bots that scour the Internet for web forms, and then, upon finding them, post garbage repeatedly through the forms. In an attempt to curtail this activity, we are in the process of adding a requirement that users enter text contained in a picture prior to submitting their posts. Since the bots will have problems reading the text in the graphic, it should prevent them from being able to successfully complete a post. We apologize for any inconvenience that this situation may have caused, and look forward to keeping the Marketplaces clean and spam-free.