Re: The ..... worm

From: "Keith G(dot) Murphy" <keithmur(at)mindspring(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The ..... worm
Date: 2003-09-11 17:49:09
Message-ID: 3F60B595.3070406@mindspring.com
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Hmmm, speaking of blindness... that's the objection to doing it that
way: blind users using speech synthesis software couldn't see the return
addresses...

Dennis Gearon wrote:

>
> Some of these image generating apps are even using a background similar
> to the color blindness tests. I think even an image recognition program
> would have a hard time with those.
>
> Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 14:12:43 +0200,
>>> Francois Suter <dba(at)paragraf(dot)ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not sure this is really going to help, because the e-mail
>>>> addresses are also harvested from the web-based archives. Still
>>>> doesn't such a reknowned ML tool as Majordomo have a feature that
>>>> can hide e-mail addresses (like automatically write them as someone
>>>> AT any DOT com) in the web archives?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That isn't a real solution. Any standard way of munging addresses in a
>>> reversable way will result in spammers writing a tool to extract the
>>> addresses. So if you don't spammers to get addresses off the web
>>> archives,
>>> then you don't want addresses there.
>>>
>> Check this out:
>>
>> http://nlug.org/listserv.php
>>
>> They only show graphical images of the return addresses. You'd have
>> to use text recognition software to harvest them.
>>
>> Don't know what software they use, though; might be homegrown for all
>> I know.
>>

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