scraping email addresses

[paint...@gmail.com]

Do spammers scrape the email address from both the output page in your
browser and the HTML source? What software is used to scrape the
email address from the output page sent to the browser? Do they use
something like:

lynx -dump
lynx -source -dump

in a while loop with pipes to grep, awk and sed?

If so, I guess

perl -le'for(@ARGV){s/./"&#".ord$&/eg;print}' em...@address.tld

wouldn't work quite as well for making the email address hard to
scrape.