If you can come up with a reasonable use to harvest email addresses from webpages

Before XML became widespread, I knew a company (which I shouldn't really talk about) that used HTML as their universal data format. It had the advantage of being browser-readable by almost everyone. Couldn't handle data like XML could, but it worked for them, espically with outside vendors.

A script like this might merely be processing email addresses from internal documents. Opt-in email lists? Employee email lists?

I dislike spam as much as you do. I but do -not- believe that we should be in the business of passing judgement on somebody for their *assumed* code uses.

But if he comes out and says "Yes, I'm writing an email harvester", you have my full support to clue-by-four him. :-)

Cheers,
ibanix

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