On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:34:32 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
<hgs / dmu.ac.uk> wrote:

> > the web archives) Then wouldn't it be better render the email-address
> > of the poster as a graphic ?
> 
> <sigh>.  People went to a lot of trouble to make SVG accessible to
> screen readers, braille displays and the like. You are proposing the
> opposite. 

agreed. but i thought that it wouldn't be that much of a problem if
the screen readers can't access the poster's email address. i also
think that it's not possible to make the email address accessible to
screen readers, but not to email harvesters through obfuscation.

Obfuscation by using things like 'ruby-talk at pcppopper dot org' or
'ruby-talk / nospam.pcppopper.org' is probably not that effective in
hiding addresses from mail harvesters. This kind of things has already
been in use for such a long time, you'd expect mail harvesters to take
into account these things...

> Is there really some reason why a password cannot be used to gain
> access to the addresses in a message, with a lowish limit of 10 per
> day or something?  Abuse would be easy to detect.

Your idea sounds good, but probably involves a lot of work for the
person who has to implement it (just as the other ideas mentioned i
guess).

Ruben

PS. i've been completely 'Swen'-free for over a week now, but guess
what, right after my post on the mailing list i recieved 4
'Swen's.. coincidence ?  don't think so...