On 12 Jul 2005 at 12:30, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > On 12/07/05, Simon Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> "This is a private list, which means that the list of members > is > > >>> not available to non-members." >>> >>> ... which I would have > thought covered _not_ having my email >>> address readily available > on another site. >> >> Which they aren't, no matter how many times > you repeat this. > > Oh hello, what's this then? > > > http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/email/1476456.html > > It's an *image file*, which is not able to be harvested by web > spiders. It's there for actual humans who click over to that page, > but it is in NO WAY "readily available."
Have you ever scanned a document into a computer and run OCR software on it to convert it to digital text? Well, all that is needed for a non-human to convert that graphic into a digital email address is to OCR the graphics. Given how many places on the web that use graphics to force a human being to verify that they are a human being, and that obfuscate the graphics, I think it's pretty clear that there are plenty of bots that know how to do OCR. -- 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
