Idiots like this have forced me to waste more of my time fighting
this fire to keep spam off of many of our private support mailing
lists that HAD been advertised with mailto:.
*sigh* I remember the days when a simple killfile would take
care of these idiots.
> HipCrime wrote:
>
> "What's in a name?" I've kept quiet for as long as I can on
> this puppy, so here goes:
>
> > Given a starting URL (an HTTP address), it will search that site for
> > any hyperlinks, and follow them, from there to anywhere. Along the
> > way, it'll find Email addresses embedded within HTML pages.
> > In effect, ActiveAgent crawls from site-to-site, locating and
> > pushing people's "mail-ME" buttons.
>
> You're pushing MY buttons, too. Here's why:
>
> I've just completed (I hope) a week in hell for doing exactly this.
> In fact, I had carefully pre-qualified each page for relevance before
> extracting mailto's, and sent only a very short, highly relevant,
> informative message.
>
> What I found out was that geo.lister@pasteur.com is NOT necessarily
> Dr. George Lister, but is maybe an unmoderated list server for
> geographers, geologists, or geomancers. They don't like hearing
> from you and I have 5 MB of email to prove it. And there were
> many other problems like this. I even ended up getting MYSELF
> subscribed to a bunch of lists for chicken pluckers and so forth.