Re: anti-spam idea for this list
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 8:13 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I see it just fine, but then I am sighted. I don't know how blind
> > Debians access the list, but they do. I suppose they have something
> > that does text to voice, or text to braille. Whatever it is, I doubt
> > that it can handle figlet to voice/braille. I am not willing to leave
> > these people behind, even though I happen to know none. I am not
> > willing to poll the list, asking them to reveal themselves, so they
> > can be counted. Maybe there are, at the moment, absolutely none. But
> > there could be some, if we don't shut the door to them.
>
> I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it.
> I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful
> contributions, more than many sighted developers.
>
OK. Then we most think about some solution that includes them. What we can't
do is use this as an excuse to forget the problem. It should be considered a
priority for debian developers not to make things easier to spamers and
harder to this list users.
Alfredo
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