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Why do I have to do character matching when I send emails to SPAMMERS but they don't have to when emailing me?

I like to send replies to SPAMMERS and even give them a bunch of my other SPAM that I have received but its a pain because I also have to fill out one of those stupid character matching things in order to send. If the SPAMMERS had to go through that in order to send me junk mail it would slow them down. So why do I have to go through that and they don't?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Because they are on a spam sending computer, we are on Yahoo and Yahoo is trying to prevent it. Those addresses are not real anyway, they keep changing numbers and letters to throw us off. Even if you see some with a Yahoo address they have their way to get around it.

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