Re: The ..... worm

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@paragraf.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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