Re: Verification required.. Oh brother, not this again..
Re: Verification required.. Oh brother, not this again..
- Subject: Re: Verification required.. Oh brother, not this again..
- From: Jim Witte <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:47:06 -0500
I just got this message:
ATTENTION!
A message you recently sent to a 0Spam.com user with the subject "Re:
applescript-users digest, Vol 3 #2253 - 11 msg..." was not delivered
because they are using the 0Spam.com anti-spam service. Please click
the link below to confirm that this is not spam. When you confirm,
this message and all future messages you send will automatically be
accepted.
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Oh brother, not this again. We went through this a couple months ago
with the Newtontalk list. Did anyone else get this? Is this because
someone on the list is receiving non-digest mode, and the spam service
isn't set to white-list anything from the applescript list
automatically?
Also, me-wonders how complicated the little numbers-on-grid problem
really is - it seems like a rather simple filtering algorithm,
edge-detection, path center-detection, and then run it through Rosetta
(um, Inkwell) would be able to decipher it pretty well.. So many of
those "human-easy/computer-hard" problems just look way too easy for a
well-designed algorithm to foil - but I'm no expert on computer vision
systems.
Of course, that's not the point - the point is to raise the "cost" of
spamming (in this case programming effort) to the point where spam
isn't feasible anymore. Something that a one-thousandth to
one-ten-thousandth cent tax on email would probably do quite nicely.
Unfortunately, that would be impossible to enforce unless SMTP was
thrown out the window..
Jim Witte
email@hidden
Indiana University CS
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