Does anyone know about "E-mail America" and if they obey the robot exclusion
protocol? I found this on another mailing list:
From: Justin_Kerr@calunet.com (Justin Kerr)
Organization: CaluNET Online, Inc.
Subject: Re: A new Alta Vista?
To: online-news@marketplace.com
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>Eric Meyer wrote:
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>>Is another major search engine about to go on-line? We've suddenly
>>been getting bursts of sequential hits on every file, including a
>>bunch of mockup files that don't even have permissions set, much as
>>happened right before Alta Vista's debut. They come from a variety of
>>domains, mostly numeric. Anyone else experiencing this in recent days?
Justin Kerr wrote:
>Probably from those pig-dog digital marketers at "E-mail America,"
>which is currently trolling every tendril of the Internet, searching
>for publicly available e-mail addresses and selling lists to firms
>for the purposes of sending out wads of junk e-mail.
I'm going to have to post a warning for our members if this is true.
Bonnie Scott
Prodigy Services Company