RE: PHP Spider/Crawler for Emails possible?

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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

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