slightly OT: preventing user stupidity

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Feb 7 14:04:15 PST 2005


Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kenneth Brody done said:
> 
> Well, it is understandable, since putting the random code in plain text
> would allow automated scripts to read that text and stuff it into the
> posting.  (And simple-to-read graphics could be parsed by OCR software.)
> 
> Yes, it's a pain, but at least I can understand why they're being forced
> into such procedures.

Yup.  It's AOLusers and script-kiddies and the lot that ruin it for
everyone.  Someone wants this thread to die so desperately because the
truth hasn't been very popular the last few years.  Good try though,
Smitty.  :) 

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