Re: anti-spam idea for this list
On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses
> > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from
> > massively collecting address from the web archives of this list?
> >
> > I think that this method works because yahoo mail use it to prevent
> > programs from creating accounts.
>
> It also blocks blind people and anyone else using non-graphical software.
>
Lets see, 99% of this list's users are not blind (I hope).
Maybe some blind debian user have some other proposal to make?
But I think that even a blind person can see that something should be done
with Swen and the spamers.
>
> > If yahoo have solved their problem this way this list can too.
>
> Yahoo doesn't care about accessibility.
At least yahoo care about making life easier to their users.
Alfredo
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