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use the word "poaching" instead of "harvesting" for collection of e-mail addresses by spammers — 2 people
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Internet users
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go to the christmas bash , with the snowman cliq sat dec 22, 2007 @ the viper room
Internet users
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use the word "poaching" instead of "harvesting" for collection of e-mail addresses by spammers
Everyone knows the problem of spammers “harvesting” e-mail addresses from the Web, USENET, etc.
How did it come to be called “harvesting”? “Poaching” is a much more appropriate term.
Sure, “harvest” fits; look it up in the dictionary and you will find it defined as “gain (something) as the result of an action.” But what is the implication? Something pastoral, like gathering wheat. In other words, it conjures the idea of someone reaping the fruits of a worthy effort. Hah!
Contrast with this definition of “poach”: “take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way.”
Internet users, your addresses are not being harvested, they’re being poached.
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type goatse into google images
I suppose an argument could be made in favor of this. It’s like those Green Cross first-aid textbooks, where they show the worst possible examples of trauma inflicted on the human body in order to prepare students for doing real first aid in the real world.
But that’s just me playing devil’s advocate.
Go ahead, Internet users, you can try it, but don’t come crying to me.
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