>Arachnid is used in conjunction with your existing internet connection,
>and effectively gathers information from targeted servers / URLs.
>
>What Arachnid does is to collect HTML, GIFs, AVIs, WAV files automatically
>and save them locally to disk. For high speed collection of HTML, all other
>file options can be disabled. Current benchmarks using a 28,800 bps modem
>have given results as startling as 20 average HTML pages per minute.
Are the pages then searcheable on the client, or is the idea mostly to
create a local cache?
>Mailing lists to be constructed as Arachnid can optionally save
>all mailto: addresses found.
...
>Automatic emailing on the fly - as email addresses are encountered, pre-
>defined email could be sent.
Why would I want a spider to send e-mail automatically like this to people
whom I may or may not know?
Nick