On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:28:13AM -0500, Damien Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Damien Morton wrote: > > > I still think the email-address-as-jpeg solution is prohibitively > > > expensive to reverse; effectively impossible for machines, entirely > > > easy for people. > > > > But it does have drawbacks. > > > > It only works with graphical browsers. > > This is true. We are in the 21st century now. Expecting a graphical > client isnt such a huge leap of faith, unless we allow ourselves to be > guided by recidivist or luddite lynx users and their ilk.
And Chuq says *I'm* arrogant. There are lots of people who run their graphical browsers with J/Jscript off for security and images off for the same reason (much faster browsing) that I use Lynx. And see above about wireless browsers, and below about the blind. And get the phuque over yourself. > > It can't be enlarged for people that have poor vision. > > This is true, for the public archives. > > > It can be reverse-engineered -- all they have to do is decode > > a single font, then they're all simple to snag. > > Assuming you use a single font. > Assuming you don't add some noise to the resulting image. > Assuming you don't do some geometric distortion to the resulting image. > > To reverse engineer, a harvester would have to examine pretty much every > image it finds, OCR it with some fantastic military grade image > recognition software, and see if theres an email address buried in > there. It doesn't matter, really. > As I said, "prohibitively expensive to reverse" And just imaging -- yet another way to make 15 bytes into 15 kilobytes. Yeah, the network operators oughtta like that. You get a commission? > Replacing the email addresses with a link to a webform would be another, > perfectly acceptable solution, assuming you can get over your own > objections to web forms. We seem to keep conflating the "admin mailto problem" with the "list member mailto problem"; they have fairly widely diverging solutions. Could we please be a bit more cautious about that? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
