Re: To: ???? Robot

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.edu)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:40:14 -0400


> > I've got a robot I'm thinking of creating. Only I don't care about indexing
> >HTML Docs. I'm looking for people. Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Goal: To create a searchable database of e-mail address
>
> Sounds to me like you're trying to collect addresses so you can send out
> junk mail. We have enough of that already.

totally, and if you do send junk mail, i think it's pretty well understood
that you'll have trouble. this isn't a threat, it's an observation. i
hope no one is stupid enough to do unsolicited commercial mail. it's such
an industrial, pre-internet thing to do.

-john