2010/1/6 Michael Adams <[email protected]>:
...
> What are your motives for this. A bot harvesting email addresses is
> generally frowned upon as a nasty spammers tool.
>

There's lots of good reasons for someone wanting to download their own
address book from a free mail service: The two most pressing being
able to move your email presence to your own domain (*) and having a
backup. I can't think of any good reason for accusing someone who
simply wants to move their own data to a different platform of wanting
to spam.

Bruce

(*) I've raved at length elsewhere about how short-sighted it is to
use ISP emails for business purposes and free email is totally
unprofessional (Unless your profession is being the son of a former
Nigerian president).

B


>



-- 
Bruce Clement

When a co-worker said he didn't want his kids getting the H1N1 vaccine
because it was too new and "they haven't tested it enough", I blurted
out something like, "So you'd rather test a new and poorly understood
virus on them instead?"

I'm not entirely proud of fighting vague and irrational fear of the
unknown by invoking vague and irrational fear of the unknown, but I
think it did make an impression.

Petréa Mitchell
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