RE: [PHP] PHP Spider/Crawler for Emails possible?
| From: | Jim Moseby | Date: | Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:27:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] PHP Spider/Crawler for Emails possible? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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>
> [snip]
> Of course it is, but I'm afraid you might crawl the web, collect email
> addresses, and send spam to the good people, or sell their email
> adresses to
> someone else who will.
> [/snip]
>
> Why be afraid? That's just paranoid.
>
> I also noticed that the thread started as a RE:, was this thread
> hijacked?
Maybe "afraid" was a poor choice of words. My point was that the OP plans
to write an email address harvester. While he/she may have a legitimate use
for it in mind, most often they are used for spam. Many people (myself
included) don't want to contribute to or support spammers.
JM