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Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl at vitelus dot com>
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:42:04 -0700
- Subject: Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- References: <3EA99B4B.64D71890@veritas.com>
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:32:11PM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
>
> I used to agree. If you do a wget on this page:
>
> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/announce.html
>
> At the very bottom, you'll see indecipherable javascript gobbeldygook.
> If you do a "view page source" on it, you'll see some HTML mailto
> markup that email harversters never look at and if they do they
> cannot decipher. Finally, if you x-copy and x-paste, you'll get
> English text. Something along those lines ought to please everyone.
Except lynx users, the blind, people who don't use X, and people who
turn off javascript.
One of the programmers I know is blind and I shudder to think how
Netscape/IE-only websites are completely inaccessible to him. One good
example of a website that isn't friendly to the blind is ticketmaster,
which requires you to transcribe a word from an image to prove that
you aren't a computer.