On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:46:24AM -0500, Damien Morton wrote: > > Jay R. Ashworth writes: > > Well, neither the JavaScript *nor* the picture are going to > > do me much good on the two browsers I use most often: Lynx > > 2.8.3 in a konsole window... and GoWeb 6 on my Palm/Minstrel handheld. > > > > The former may not be especially mainstream, but anyone who > > ignores the latter category (not to mention my blind friend's > > screen reader) does so at their peril. > > I was wondering how long it would be before someone brought up the case > for Lynx. Blind people I had not though about, although I had thought > about text based reverse turing tests.
:-) > I know nothing of this GoWeb 6 that you speak of, youll have to describe > it to me, but I assume its some kind of transcoding browser that doesnt > handle images very well. It's the browser on my wireless handheld, and, in general, it doesn't handle images *at all*. Nor will the microbrowsers on some people's cell phones. > So one solution would be to have both public and private archives. The > public archives have the email addresses obfuscated in some way, the > private archives would not. Oh. We're talking about *archives*? Silly me. I thought we were talking about maintainer addresses on sign-up pages. > List members, and those able to pass a reverse turing test, would have > access to the private archives, while the rest of the world would have > access to the public archives. > > Once we are talking about both public are private archives, however, we > are probably also talking about the use of a cgi script which renders > emails on the fly, depending on some kind of authentication. A cookie, > perhaps. > > Thoughts? It's ASCII text. It's useful. Making it into something else makes it less useful, and as I noted in another posting, reduces the incentive to locate the spammers and commit arson upon their persons and property. Cheers, -- jr 'closed captioned for the humor impaired' a -- 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
