urgent business/investment deal

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Mar 15 13:38:53 2002

> > Anyway, you get a page where the host system looks up the
> > actual e-mail address, then constructs a graphic image
> > ON THE FLY that is a "picture" of the poster's e-mail
> > address.
> >
> > Gonna take a hell of a bot to break through that...
>
> Not really. OCR algorithms are easily available I'm sure.

Sure, but SPAM is at least partly pervasive due to the low cost
of harvesting addresses. This might bump it into the unprofitable
zone...
 
> Decent system though.

Yeah, and if a bunch of genealogists can come up with it,
I'd be ashamed to be an IT professional if *we* couldn't
do at least as well...

-dq
Received on Fri Mar 15 2002 - 13:38:53 GMT