On 12 Jul 2005 at 14:04, Christopher Smith wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Simon Troup wrote: > > > > It's the distribution of email addresses that I object to. > > > > There is no distribution of email addresses on this archive. They are > stripped out. Check it out yourself. > > http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/[email protected]/416.html
But if you click on them, you get to a graphical representation of the email address which a human being can read. Go to: http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[email protected]/1719087.html and then click on the SENDER name. This takes you to: http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/email/1719087.html where you see a graphic with your email address. Yes, this (mostly) insures that bots can't harvest the address (though some of them are savvy enough to be able to OCR a graphic and convert it to text; that's why many online sources require you to read through noise, such as: http://www.geektools.com/whois.php The text in the graphic is readable by a human being, but the noise added to the graphic makes it pretty hard (if not impossible) for a bot to OCR it. The point here is that the addresses are still available, and quite a few garden-variety bots would have no problem OCR'ing those graphics. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
