Re: Web page scraping software

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:19 PM -0700 List Mail User
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Is anyone here familiar with the web page email address scraping
>> software sold at: http://newsman.asp.be/featuresu.jsp ?
> 
>> From that page:
> 
>> NewsMan Pro sends one message per recipient and shows the member name in
>> the to field of the email client.
>>
>> Each message can be personalized for each specific recipient using
>> templates.
>>
>> No more worries about being accused of sending SPAM when you can prove
>> that you've found the contact email on the recipient's web site!
> 
> So a published address counts as "solicitation" to them?

Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice.

And would apparently be a perfectly legal practice under CAN-SPAM. Opt-out
marketing at its finest.




Re: Web page scraping software

2006-04-11 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:19 PM -0700 List Mail User 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Is anyone here familiar with the web page email address scraping
software sold at: http://newsman.asp.be/featuresu.jsp ?



From that page:



NewsMan Pro sends one message per recipient and shows the member name in
the to field of the email client.

Each message can be personalized for each specific recipient using
templates.

No more worries about being accused of sending SPAM when you can prove
that you've found the contact email on the recipient's web site!


So a published address counts as "solicitation" to them?


Web page scraping software

2006-04-11 Thread List Mail User
Hi,

Is anyone here familiar with the web page email address scraping
software sold at: http://newsman.asp.be/featuresu.jsp ?

I only found this because one of their programmers, subscribed to
this list (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), is running an "out-of-office" auto-responder
and spewing garbage for the past few days.  Oh well, I guess both spammers
and people who support them can subscribe to whatever they like.

Paul Shupak
[EMAIL PROTECTED]