On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Bob Apthorpe wrote:
> Any system that relies on Captcha (find the hidden word in the image) or
> similar systems ties mail too closely to the web, causing trouble for
> people on text-only systems (e.g. the blind.) And if the C/R system is
>
Just to show how crazy it's getting, I know of a grad student here
(specializing in image processing) who was approached by an individual
who wanted to hire him to write a program to do OCR on "noisy" images.
The sample images were Captcha's from a well known on-line service.
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