From: mike 



You mean captcha, right?   ;)

http://www.captcha.net/cgi-bin/gimpy

 /m

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:48:44 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>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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