The word harvester might be more appropriate. Sadly there are folks out there harvesting email addresses and sending SPAM :(
der Mouse wrote: >>> Some @(*#$ idiot decided to write his own scraper and generated [so] >>> many errors that the log partition ran full. >>> > > >> As English is not my mother tounge, I even ran "scraper" through a >> dictionary. [...] >> > > Here, "scraper" means an automated piece of software to gather up > something from somewhere - usually, email addresses from webpages. > (Why the name, I'm not sure. Perhaps derived from "scrape together", > meaning approximately "gather", but with a connotation of difficulty; > perhaps derived from the image of scraping something off something > else, the way you might scrape frost off a window, or dried food off a > stove.) > > /~\ The ASCII der Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
