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Old 18-04-2006, 12:11 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Garden Banter and email addresses


In article .com,
"Sacha" writes:
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| Your email address is indeed accessible to anyone reading GardenBanter.
| If they click on view headers, they're taken to a page which displays
| a code they have to type in to prove they're a person and not a
| 'harvesting machine' but then they get your address.
| The msg. they see is:
| "Newsgroup message headers contain the email address of the poster. To
| combat automated email harvesting (and the subsequent spam), please
| enter the image verification text below which demonstrates you are not
| a machine: "
| and below this is a box with a random letter code in it.

Well, a BanterBot wouldn't be that hard to write, then :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.