Idea: Human screenning

[Paul Bohme]

Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 15/01/07, Gervais Mulongoy <gervais.mulongoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Heh, until the phone spam operators start using basic voice 
>> recognition and
>> to defeat the simple riddle :p
>
> Spammers don't do email address de-obfuscation because it takes too
> much processing time; I can't see them doing this in practice :-)

Unfortunately, with zombie bot-nets being what they are, spammers have 
essentially infinite CPU power at their disposal.  Whether the 
investment to get through a single obstinate node is worthwhile, look 
for any mechanism short of a pure white-list to be eventually overrun.

  -P