On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:44:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it.
> > I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful
> > contributions, mor
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it.
> I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful
> contributions, more than many sighted dev
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 8:13 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I see it just fine, but then I am sighted. I don't know how blind
> > Debians access the list, but they do. I suppose they have something
> > that does text to voice, or text
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:04:14PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:13:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > > > Why would anybody read an inhe
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I see it just fine, but then I am sighted. I don't know how blind
> Debians access the list, but they do. I suppose they have something
> that does text to voice, or text to braille. Whatever it is, I doubt
> that it can handle figlet
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:13:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> > > a monospaced font?
> >
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> > a monospaced font?
>
> The web is a monos
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> a monospaced font?
The web is a monospaced medium? Since when?
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:17:42 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > try it without a monospace font.
>
> Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
> a monospaced font?
>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:50:16PM -0500, Ray wrote:
> try it without a monospace font.
Why would anybody read an inheirently monospace medium in anything but
a monospaced font?
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
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> > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list
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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:08, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)?
>
> $ figlet -w 72 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Makes perfect sense to a human eye, but should foil spam harvester
> bots.
try it without a monospace font.
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)?
it's machine parsable, defeats the purpose
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)?
See also: Warlording.
http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/W/warlording.html
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> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list
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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > I will
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> I will give up my keyboard and text mode interface when they pry it
> from my cold dead fingers...
I'm with you, there.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses instead of
> the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from massively
> collecting address from the web archives of this list?
I will give up my keyboa
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Your idea of "easier" does not reflect that of the open source
> community, apparently.
What does "open source" have to do with storing email addresses in
archives in a format that is easily harvested by spam-bots?
Does "open source" == "no p
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:41:38PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom wrote:
>
> > For the blind, link to a CGI which generates the email as a WAV.
>
> And the blind and deaf? ...
>
> Mike
>
I'm stumped; they would *have* to have machine-encodable information.
I can think of
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom wrote:
> For the blind, link to a CGI which generates the email as a WAV.
And the blind and deaf? ...
Mike
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> > > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses
> > > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from
> > > massively collecting ad
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> At least yahoo care about making life easier to their users.
Your idea of "easier" does not reflect that of the open source
community, apparently.
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On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses
> > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from
> > massively collecting address from the web archives of this list?
> >
> > I think that this meth
Alfredo writes:
> Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses
> instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from
> massively collecting address from the web archives of this list?
> I think that this method works because yahoo mail use it to prevent
> pr
Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses instead of
the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from massively
collecting address from the web archives of this list?
I think that this method works because yahoo mail use it to prevent programs
from creating a
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