On 12 Jul 2005 at 15:29, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 01:01 PM 7/12/2005, Simon Troup wrote: > >It's the distribution of email addresses that I object to. > > See, nobody has yet responded to that part of my posts. Anyone in the > world can subscribe to this list and then get a list of the > subscribers with no trouble at all. So the idea that all of our > addresses would be more secure without these archives doesn't hold > water.
And any bot that can OCR graphics can use Opensubscriber.com to harvest all those email addresses without needing to bother with subscribing to the list. The fact that Yahoo and Geektools and a number of other sites are obfuscating their graphics suggests to me that bots that OCR graphics are pretty common. -- 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
