Re: An OCR plug-in for Spamassassin

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Gary Funck wrote:
>
> > [Rather cool.  And since spammers have been resorting to encoding their
> > adverts into gif's of late, maybe worth a try.]
>
> Or maybe the spammers are a step ahead already??
>
> OK, so it is not commonly used (yet) but earlier this year we saw some 
> evidence that just maybe the spammers were already thinking about, and 
> experimenting with, ways to break OCR'ing as an anti-spam method...
>
>    http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/01/do-spammers-fear-ocr.html
 
Or they could use the same methods used in Captchas, making the graphics 
almost unreadable. 

I already find most spam unreadable.

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