Why the captcha?

[Alan]

Very annoying when I'm trying to post and I'm asked to copy the text prior to posting, is this really necessary?

[JohnDB]

We have had spammers who cover this board with profanity and vulgarity and advertisements.


This sort of thing keeps them from doing so easily...slows them down so we can stop them and clean up the mess without it taking all day to do so.