We use reCAPTCHA as it eliminates spam mail & provides Global benefits

Many of you wonder why we force you to use the reCAPTCHA system to send us emails.  The simple answer is that it helps digitize 110 years of the New York Times so that this information is made available globally and it eliminates spam mail from our web site.  If this system of confirming that you are a human being and not a spam generating robot is confusing, please accept our apologies in advance.

According to Wikipedia, reCAPTCHA supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition (OCR) software has been unable to read. The subscribing websites present these images for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words, as part of their normal validation procedures. They then return the results to the reCAPTCHA service, which sends the results to the digitization projects. reCAPTCHA is currently digitizing the archives of the New York Times. Twenty years of The New York Times have been digitized and the project hopes to have the 110 other years done by 2010.