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Re: Gmail account owners?


From: Bruce Carter <bcarter () ND EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:35:02 -0400

On May 19, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2010 13:49:11 EDT, "Behun, Michael" said:
Consider sending a note to the account, asking to stop the activity.
In the message put the note as an image on your webserver.

The preferred image is a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF - kind of tough to
spot unless you have *really* good eyes. ;)


Works for spammers.  Seems only fair to use the technology for good.

-- 
Bruce Carter, Senior Systems Engineer              http://www.nd.edu/~bcarter/
Center for Creative Computing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN  46556

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