On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:44:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it.
> > I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful
> > contributions, mor
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it.
> I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful
> contributions, more than many sighted dev
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 8:13 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I see it just fine, but then I am sighted. I don't know how blind
> > Debians access the list, but they do. I suppose they have something
> > that does text to voice, or text
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:04:14PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:13:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > > > Why would anybody read an inhe
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I see it just fine, but then I am sighted. I don't know how blind
> Debians access the list, but they do. I suppose they have something
> that does text to voice, or text to braille. Whatever it is, I doubt
> that it can handle figlet
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:13:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> > > a monospaced font?
> >
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> > a monospaced font?
>
> The web is a monos
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> a monospaced font?
The web is a monospaced medium? Since when?
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:17:42 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > try it without a monospace font.
>
> Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> a monospaced font?
>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:50:16PM -0500, Ray wrote:
> try it without a monospace font.
Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
a monospaced font?
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list
>
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:08, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)?
>
> $ figlet -w 72 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Makes perfect sense to a human eye, but should foil spam harvester
> bots.
try it without a monospace font.
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)?
it's machine parsable, defeats the purpose
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)?
See also: Warlording.
http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/W/warlording.html
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> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list
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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > I will
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> I will give up my keyboard and text mode interface when they pry it
> from my cold dead fingers...
I'm with you, there.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses instead of
> the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from massively
> collecting address from the web archives of this list?
I will give up my keyboa
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Your idea of "easier" does not reflect that of the open source
> community, apparently.
What does "open source" have to do with storing email addresses in
archives in a format that is easily harvested by spam-bots?
Does "open source" == "no p
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:41:38PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom wrote:
>
> > For the blind, link to a CGI which generates the email as a WAV.
>
> And the blind and deaf? ...
>
> Mike
>
I'm stumped; they would *have* to have machine-encodable information.
I can think of
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom wrote:
> For the blind, link to a CGI which generates the email as a WAV.
And the blind and deaf? ...
Mike
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> > > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses
> > > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from
> > > massively collecting ad
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> At least yahoo care about making life easier to their users.
Your idea of "easier" does not reflect that of the open source
community, apparently.
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On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses
> > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from
> > massively collecting address from the web archives of this list?
> >
> > I think that this meth
Alfredo writes:
> Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses
> instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from
> massively collecting address from the web archives of this list?
> I think that this method works because yahoo mail use it to prevent
> pr
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