On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:10:41 -0500 Igor Chudov <i...@chudov.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 02:09:05PM -0700, John Hardin wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Gary Forrest wrote: > > FuzzyOCR. It seems Spammers are trying image spam again, after > > giving up on it for a year or so. > > > > Why did spammers give up on it, seems like a good idea? There are probably many reasons, but I suspect that fundamentally it doesn't make good spam. I think that most spam needs one of two things, either it should look like a legitimate email, or it should have a clickable link. Before image spams, spammers experimented with fragmented urls, but it never really caught-on. If people wont reassemble urls with cut-and-paste, they're even less likely to type them in from captcha-style text.
