At 20:31 4/27/2000 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
>[I think we need software for automatically extracting the words from PDF
>and MS-Word documents so they can be found in web searches.  It looks like
>the bad guys are deliberately putting lots of interesting stuff in PDF
>to make it hard to find and read.    --gnu]

I don't have the time to write such a thing, at least right now, but I'd be 
happy to host a targeted spider on my server. I've got the space and 
bandwidth and we could aim it at certain potentially-interesting sites. 
(There must be plenty of text converters for MSWD and PDF files, right?)

-Declan

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