From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-10-22T08:35:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Email Harvesting

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Greg Vaughn wrote:

> approach, but I've seen systems where you're presented with a graphic
> containing a word (and a mangled background to foil OCR) and you must
> type it into a form in order to get access to a web system. The idea is
> to ensure that it is a real person viewing the web archive rather than a
> spammer's harvesting bot.

Yes, see October DDJ for one, but do we really want to exclude blind
people :-) ?  And possibly dyslexic people as well....
>
> -Greg Vaughn
>

        Hugh