If I were a spammer (which I am not), I would crawl google for pdf
documents instead, because Google serves up the pdf's converted to html
already. Donna, you're efforts will not be wasted!
~Rolan
Mitch Pirtle wrote:
Wow if that was true then that is a total bummer! I don't think spam
bots convert and scan PDF documents, however with a little thought it
wouldn't be all that hard. I suppose the only thing keeping them from
doing it is a little effort - and if they think it is worth it, they
will do it.
-- Mitch
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Donna Marie Vincent
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, all. Hope you're having a great summer.
I'm wondering if spambots can/do harvest email addresses contained in pdf
documents that are in Docman.
I have PDF Indexer running on a site, and I modified it to change the format
of email addresses in the pdf conversion to text for the index, but I don't
know if the spambot can get it directly from the pdf.
I've been doing some research but haven't found anything yet that indicates
they do this.
Donna
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