12-25-2005, 10:53 PM
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Is Email Extraction Legal????
hi,
Can anyone tell whether email extraction is legal or not. I want to extract emails from some websites.
Can the website owners track who are extracting emails from thier sites?
Plaese let me know if anyone knows.
Thank you.
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12-25-2005, 11:12 PM
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I think it depends on the sites privacy policy, but for the most part - I believe it is illegal and if it's not, it should be 
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12-25-2005, 11:14 PM
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Extracting emails???? What, exactly, are you talking about?
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12-25-2005, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by AH-Tina
Extracting emails???? What, exactly, are you talking about?
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I think he's talking about harvesting addresses for 
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12-25-2005, 11:18 PM
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One would assume, spidering/scraping web sites and copying out email addresses for spamming...oops...targetted offers?
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12-26-2005, 12:29 AM
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Can the website owners track who are extracting emails from thier sites?
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How can anyone track down if you're extracting emails from their pages ?
You request pages from the site and using regular expressions, extract emails on your side (client-side). The owner can only know how many pages you've requested and at what times and the IP.
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12-26-2005, 02:13 AM
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It should be illegal, that is for certain.
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12-26-2005, 02:45 AM
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No, spidering isn't illegal.
What you do with the data may be illegal though. 
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12-26-2005, 02:46 AM
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if not illegal, than it should certainly be an offense deserving of a public stoning.
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12-26-2005, 03:36 AM
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It might not be illegal but it is definitly a bad idea. If you harvest emails and *cough* spam them your servers will get submitted to spam companies who then make outlook and other mail clients automatically block the domain ip. It is definitly somthing I would stay away from.
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12-26-2005, 03:56 AM
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since when do smammers care about legality 
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12-26-2005, 04:33 AM
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Originally Posted by anjanesh
How can anyone track down if you're extracting emails from their pages ?
You request pages from the site and using regular expressions, extract emails on your side (client-side). The owner can only know how many pages you've requested and at what times and the IP.
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if you included some honey pot email addresses it'd be pretty obvious.
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12-26-2005, 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by David
No, spidering isn't illegal.
What you do with the data may be illegal though. |
david is right its not illegal ..if spidering is illegal the how will the search egine search you site for a particular keywords...sound logical??
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12-26-2005, 07:25 AM
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if spidering is illegal the how will the search egine search you site for a particular keywords...sound logical??
say what?
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12-26-2005, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by ravi1
if spidering is illegal the how will the search egine search you site for a particular keywords...sound logical??
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Search engines don't send you spam 
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Originally Posted by BearyChristmas
One would assume, spidering/scraping web sites and copying out email addresses for spamming...oops...targetted offers?
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Yeah really targetted, I get so many great "offers" spammed to me and most of it is US related. Pizza delivered to my door? Walmart?
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