From: "John Beamish" 

Gotcha.  Thanks.

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:06:59 -0500, Geo  wrote:

> "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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