[Tutor] fnord

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 07-Aug-2002 Kirk Bailey wrote:
> OK, it just came across my CRT that people scrape emails off  of
> publicly accessible archives, for later spamming. Hmmm, interesting. I
> may write a subroutine that MUNGS the submitter's email address when
> writing it to the archive, in a way that HUMAN intelligence could easily
> detect and correct, but which should fry a poor bot's MIND.
> 
> Discussion?
> 

you just discovered this fact (-:

My opinion is that the field of AI will be led by the spammers just like the
web was truly pushed by the porn industry.  Anything we can come up with tyhe
spammers will counteract.

No, like pop-up ads we just need to convince people that mass mailings are
ignored.