| sovereign | Randal: The designers have designed before, lol. I'm sure most of them want job offers. So I don't consider it intrusive |
| Randal | did they SIGN UP for a mail blast? I think not if you *hand extracted* each one and specialized it, you wouldn't be a spammer |
| sovereign | Randal: Well they're all illustrators that design t-shirts, I think it's mutually beneficial |
| Randal | but instead you want to grab ANY and EVERY email on those pages that makes you a freakin spammer g'damn helped a spammer bad day today so far |
| Caelum | GumbyBRAIN: bad spammers, bad |
| GumbyBRAIN | Averell... Yes. I amstill imaging a generalized solution for protecting your valuable intellectual property from possible perl source to look for the lineup go for the spammers. |
| sovereign | Randal: Lol randal, really I'm not... |
| Randal | If you can't see that you're not, you're beyond hope. and that makes me sad HAVE SOME F'KING ETHICS DUDE just because you *can* do that, doesn't mean it's right |
| imMute | Randal: one guy tried to pay me with paypal to fix his code once |
| Randal | if they all wanted to be contacted by a generic message, they WOULD have signed up for a mailing list for that they didn't now, did they? so that makes you a spammer. no f'ing ethics on the web any more. :( |
| simcop2387 | Randal: sovereign is a spammer? |
| Randal | yes |
| Psyche^_ | Ethics won't give you the big bucks. |
| Randal | then you don't get the big bucks you don't get to take money from my pocket to sell me your crap. and that's what spam is |
| sovereign | I'm not a spammer I swear |
| Randal | sovereign - then don't send the email then you won't be a spammer |
| sovereign | If I were a spammer I'd take random e-mails and send them all viagra ads |
| Randal | go to each site, one by one |
| sovereign | But I'm sending them information they want to receive |
| Randal | learn a bit about each person |
| preaction | dude. you're harvesting e-mail addresses from the internet in order to send an advertisement (or ANYTHING really) |
| Randal | YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT |
| simcop2387 | you're wanting to collect emails to send them commercial "opportunities" that they haven't opted in for |
| Randal | that's what every fu'ing marketing person says g'damn |