Bug#562200: ITP: fuzzyocr -- interface SpamAssassin to various OCR packages

[Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>]

On Sun, 14.03.2010 at 14:31:31 +0100, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 07:58:01PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > * Package name    : fuzzyocr
> > * URL             : http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/
> > * License         : Apache 2.0
> >   Programming Lang: Perl
> >   Description     : Interface SpamAssassin to various OCR packages
> 
> That's already in Debian as source package fuzzyocr.  Still I doubt its
> usefulness today because there's not that much picture spam left anymore,
> isn't it?

Thanks for pointing the presence of the package out to me.

As for the usefulness, I think that it can't hurt much, but I'd rather
not let down my guards and then be hit by a new wave of an old spamming
technique. My personal impression is that spammers cycle through an
ever-increasing arsenal of methods to slip their spam by user's
filters. I don't have statistical evidence to back up this statement,
however.


-- 
Kind regards,
--Toni++