[Mimedefang] Image validator/OCR SA plugin

Gary Funck gary at intrepid.com
Sun Apr 16 19:34:22 EDT 2006


Martin wrote:
> But problably the spammers
> will soon change their tricks to different images which are more
> difficult to read :-(
>
> http://antispam.imp.ch/patches/patch-ocrtext

On this topic, Nick FitzGerald mentioned this article,
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/01/do-spammers-fear-ocr.html

Sunday, January 15, 2006
Do spammers fear OCR?
Nick FitzGerald recently sent me two sample spams that seem to indicate that
some spammers fear that using images in place of words isn't enough. They've
started to obscure their messages to prevent optical character recognition.
[...]





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