Unsolicitated mail on the internet is a waste of the keystrokes it takes to
delete/create it, there is no doubt about that. It's pretty evident from the
message traffic, and personal reply's, that I've hit a nerve around here.
And I concur that most of the points being brought up are valid.
A few of the personal reply's had almost got me to think of writing a 'bot
to sniff out mail directed to XXXXX and delete it before it ever gets there
(you know who you are!!), effectivly killing there I-Net mail for a bit. But
alas, I am not like that.
In any case, I have opted to give my client a more viable solution. They are
now the proud owners of (3) three PhoneDisk USA software packages. Thier
quest to invade people using the internet mail world is over for now.
I am glad that there are people, like us in this LIST, who can debate the
use of 'Bots on the web. Although the revenue generated, had I performed his
development effort, would have been useful it's a job I am willing to turn down.
Thanks for all the input!!!
-Mitchell Elster
President
BitWise Computer Consultants, Inc.
Microsoft Certified Product Specialist
E-Mail: president@bwcc.com or elsterm@bwcc.com
At 02:40 PM 4/29/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> > Goal: To create a searchable database of e-mail address
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>> Sounds to me like you're trying to collect addresses so you can send out
>> junk mail. We have enough of that already.
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>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.
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>-john
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