Security through obscurity is a poor answer, and even poorer security....

I wouldn't wait for the spammers to "get stupid", "run out of ideas", "end
up in prison", etc...

You are best actively taking part in providing your own protections... many
freeware/shareware/commercial programs which will virtually guarantee you
are spam free (one in every few thousand may leak through)--just gotta learn
how to use them effectively--they let the spammers have your email if they
want it... you will never see the spam if you just take the time to become
computer savvy... one of the best is K9, is free (well, donation-ware), and
guarantees no malware... if you know perl regex expressions it is DEADLY on
spam (if not, get a perl person to write 'em for ya--ask in a perl
newsgroup)...

Warmest regards,
John

"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
news:HxQje.1450$Xh.611@fed1read07...
Maybe not the right place but seems there are several web experts here.

Can web spiders read and harvest e-mail addresses from a pdf file ?

Many users and folks like QRZ.com are using jpegs not ascii for listing
e-mails -- this seems to work.

So for pdf files without going to a jpeg --- is ascii text addresses
harvestable ?

Thanks

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CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !