FoRK and Spam..

[Magnus Bodin]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:51:39AM -0500, Dan Brickley wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Shreyans Bhansali wrote:
> 
> > How would the GIF thing work? You said there's an image gen script - how
> > does it generate the images?
> 
> There are any number of ways of generating images with text in. The GD
> library, for example. It's a clever trick, but sucks for visually impaired
> users, and for Web auotmation generally.

It sucks even more when you remember that you have to add some hash-noise
to make it "undecodable" and just work one-way in the digital world even if
the user can "SEE" the address printed.

Trade-off between how noisy it should be for not giving in to
OCR-techniques and how clear it should be for the users.

/magnus

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