>If such a program becomes widespread enough to seriously hurt spammers 
>I'd be surprised if it took a year for spamware vendors to figure ways 
>to automatically respond to the current systems' autoreplies or web 
>pages. 

OK, interesting point.   Let's see if we can brainstorm it.

First, the spam  bot has to receive my autoreply, and follow the link
contained to my web page form.    Yea, this seems doable.

Then the spam robot has to look at a series of images on my form.   Let's
say the images display the number 3485.    The spam robot would have to
read those image files, and determine which numbers they represent, and
then enter those numbers in to the form.  Then they would have to paste
their message in to the correct field and submit the form, all by automation.

I admit the spammers are damn clever, but how would they automate reading
the content of randomly generated image files?

Phil

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