Ahh interesting, so it's a case of the cure being worse than the disease -- spammers know how to use OCR too and they don't care about transcription errors. So

Ahh interesting, so it's a case of the cure being worse than the disease -- spammers know how to use OCR too and they don't care about transcription errors. So it seems like there's little point in deliberately obscuring the email address in an image, and certainly no reason to do it with a font that doesn't more clearly distinguish between letters and numbers.