Re: PHP Spider/Crawler for Emails possible?

Hi TG, I do not have the admin to all local sites. Well calling it doomsday device sure should scare anyone who believes email privacy but I HARDLY think an Image Designer of my coding capability can manage any harm even indenting so. I just don't have enough tech knowledge hence, the appeal to the forum. If you could please give a little bit more lead I would be more than happy to my homework or I'll just have to keep googling "Parsing HTML". Thanks a lot for responding, C ----- Original Message ----- From: <tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Cc: <cghosh@primarywave.com> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Spider/Crawler for Emails possible?

I guess my question at this point is that it sounds like you have control of the system. Why not have it so when they enter their email address, they can check a box saying "Add me to your mailing list".. and it'll put them directly into the database? Why the need to parse already built webpages to get the email addresses? Parsing HTML for email and web addresses shouldn't be too hard and there are probably a ton of examples of how to use regex or other pattern matching systems to do just that. But you can see how people wouldn't want to help build a doomsday device that could fall into the wrong hands. :) -TG = = = Original message = = = Hi Jay & Jim, Let me apologize for mis-communication. I HATE sp#ammers like any normal being in the net. What I intend to do is build a customer forum(Purely opted in) People come to a web page & deliberately add their Real Estate website and sign up for our product & news letter. Real estate spreads in peer networking hence, the email. Once the Emails are collected from the spiders an automated mail will be sent comprising OPT IN consent. IF Opt In email is return then only these people will be subscribed to our newsletter. Thanks a lot, C N.B: In my last post I didn't mean to barter a trade was just trying to be helpful if anyone needed graphic. ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.