I read an article in Wired (I think) that said that spammers are
filling out Yahoo info automatically, then when it comes to that, it spits
out the graphic to someone at a computer who looks at the graphic, then
types in the letters, then the spammer's script keeps going. Nasty.
-Dash
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) wrote:
> It will just last a matter of time before the spam devils applies
> patter recognition algorithms to circumvent this things. :(
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dash McElroy [mailto:php@;l1te.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 7:49 AM
> > To: Blue Presley
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] spam protection boxes
> >
> >
> > I actually just got back from the PHPCon convention in Milbrae (South San
> > Francisco), Ca. I honestly forget who suggested the idea, it may have been
> > Rasmus himself (my short term memory is shot), but the idea mentioned was
> > to have some random text pushed into a GD call to automatically generate
> > the image. Obviously then, if you supply the data to GD, you can verify
> > the input as well.
> >
> > Voila!
> >
> > -Dash
> >
> > Weiler's Law:
> > Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it
> > himself.
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Blue Presley wrote:
> >
> > > Yahoo and a couple other companies use boxes to help block spam. before
> > > posting an ad on their classifieds, you see a box with word in it.. it's a
> > > graphic. and you have to type the letters or words from the box into a
> > > text box to proceed, and that ensures that a real person is at the
> > > keyboard. anyone know how this can be accomplished in PHP?
> > >
> > > thx
> > >
> > > blue
> > >
> > >
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