From: "Geo" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.tjvt28dpm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Could you elaborate, please.

Have you ever gone to register for a free email account or something and
you get an image with a word or numbers in it that you have to then type
into a box, the word or numbers are done in messy characters so character
recognition won't work, thus making it impossible to auto register a bunch
of accounts?

Well the stock spammer is now using this technique, each spam consists of a
bunch of random text grabbed from different news sites and such and an
image file that contains the text of the spam. The image file is different
in each spam, and it's done like the registration image described above so
you can't automate filtering of it.

Basically, random text, random images, unless you plan to block all email
that contains images you can't stop these spams.

Geo.

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