Re: If human/machine discrimination is real.

From: Toby Butzon (toby_at_butzon.com)
Date: 05/30/03


Date: 30 May 2003 20:58:43 GMT


[Fri, 30 May 2003 12:32:31 -0400] Bill wrote:
> OCR in email is kind of pointless[...]

He's not talking about OCRing an email message; he's talking about the
signup process for a yahoo account. To help keep automated systems from
registering account after account on their service, they've employed an
authentication whereby you must read the word from an image and type it
into the textbox to continue.

-- 
Toby Butzon


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