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But he said this doesn't involve touching Craiglist's servers at all. I admit I am drawing a blank as to how this would work, but the (seemingly impossible) des
by chc 14y ago
But he said this doesn't involve touching Craiglist's servers at all. I admit I am drawing a blank as to how this would work, but the (seemingly impossible) description he offers seems to get around that objection.
- tptacek 14y agoManny spammers buy email lists. They don't harvest addresses themselves. By your logic, they've "gotten around the objection".
- stcredzero 14y agoBy your logic, they've "gotten around the objection". Not so fast. The full objection that people have with spammers isn't that the spammers have their email address. It's exactly how the email is used which comprises what people object to. I've been looking at Padmapper, and as far as I can tell, they are basically providing a better interface to Craigslist largely by aggregating data that Craigslist doesn't claim to own. Specifically how is Padmapper competing with Craigslist? How would such a mechanism not also apply to Google News, reddit, HN and various news sites? Is a "search bar" extension in Firefox competing with Google?
- smacktoward 14y agoIt appears they use an API provided by a company called 3taps: http://3taps.com/ http://3taps.com/ So they avoid touching Craigslist's servers by having a middleman do the touching for them.
- ericd 14y agoNah, they don't touch the servers either (I asked very explicitly about that). They get the info from Google's cache.