Barry O'Donovan said on Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:15:37PM +0100:
> On Wed 08 Sep 2004 15:07, you wrote:
> > Barry O'Donovan said on Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:59:06PM +0100:
> > > It's as easy as this:
> > >
> > > text2gif -t "name at domain.com" | convert -border 1x1 -bordercolor
> > > "#000000" -negate - png:name.png
> >
> > Neat. Pretty useless for people who read mail with
> > mutt/elm/pine/mh/whateverthehell, and don't want to be bothered
> > saving and then viewing images.
>> It's meant for use on webpages. ie. linux.ie adds ".nospam" to an
> address to stop SPAM bots harvesting addresses. These and other
> varients of "hiding" an e-mail address can be replaced with these
> images.
>I hear links to CGIs can go on the web now, too.
- DoC
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