>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO THIS Robin> Really? If I understood the OP correctly, all he wants to do is 'screen Robin> scrape' the (public) board in question. In other words, nothing Robin> significantly different from what Google does when it indexes. I don't Robin> really see an ethical (as opposed to legal - IANAL!) problem with that. Robin> Of course, I would first email the admin for permission, and make *sure* Robin> that such a bot is 'well behaved' - such as adding calls to sleep inside Robin> some of those loops. After he gets the data, he could do something Robin> unethical with it - like republish it. But just getting the data Robin> doesn't seem wrong to me. It's one thing to be google, and index all the pages for public use. It's entirely another to do it for your own personal gain (knowledge or commerce, doesn't matter). If you can't see the difference, you need to retune your ethics. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
