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Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- From: Michael S. Zick <mszick at goquest dot com>
- To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl at vitelus dot com>,Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:43:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: spam mail fodder from public mailing lists
- References: <3EA99B4B.64D71890@veritas.com> <20030425234204.GH5514@vitelus.com>
On Friday 25 April 2003 06:42 pm, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> 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
Lynx can display graphics
> 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.
There are utilites that take a character string as input and produce
a small graphic image file of what the characters would appear as.
Such a trick might well make a blind user's text-to-speech converter
studder, but...
Unless some web-spider has a built-in scanned image, character
recognition function, they should studder also.
Mike