FoRK and Spam..

[Gary P]

At 03:57 PM 3/18/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Why not just munge the addresses on the web in a format that is human
>readable but not easily harvested, using "bob/@/bobsworld.com" instead of
>"bob@bobsworld.com"?

Another option is that it's now fairly trivial to set up an image gen 
script to take 'bob@bobsworld.com' and convert it into a GIF.  I've noticed 
that some of the free webspace providers, and a few merchants (I think I 
saw it on PayPal?), are using this visual verification ("type the number 
you see to the left") to avoid hosting warez, allowing bogus ecom accounts 
and other automated service sign-ups.

Advantage of this is it doesn't require Javascript.  Can't cut/paste though...

-g