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[Donna Marie Vincent]

oh, no!



----- Original Message ----
From: Rolan Yang <rolan at omnistep.com>
To: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 7:06:02 PM
Subject: Re: [joomla] Do spambots read pdfs?

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
> <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> 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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