Is it illegal to Snarf e-mail addresses off of mass-mailings and use them for marketing purposes?
148396
If i am not mistaken, it is illegal according to the can-spam act
504425
No, it's a scam and you can't get free stuff by forwarding emails to everyone in your address book either.
957055
Will you go to prison? Probably not.\n\nWill you be sued? Probably not without an opportunity to mend your ways.\n\nWill you get a "cease and desist" letter from the brand owner's lawyers? Increasingly likely, as there are more and more crawler systems on the market seeking trade mark abuse.\n\nAre you entitled to use an e-mail address brandname@yahoo.com? No. This is a prima facie case of "passing off". You could ultimately be sued for any income you make from a "passing off" activity. That is income, not profit.\n\nCan you use brand names in your site metatags? No, this is also potentially "passing off".\n\nIt is always best to get approval from the brand owners before generating any income on the back of their names or logos.
605034
send me the specifics, please.\n\nsometimes the big email servers break down under traffic, or their spam filters malfunction.\n\nCraig\ncraig@craigslist.org
682522
well dear,  it is quite illegal to get a software that can retrieve the information about the owner of an email address from the mail server.\n  i have got one and i can tell you the information about you i got from your email address.\nbut it is not on the Internet so u write me a mail and i will reply you with the software as an attachment or i can out it up in my website for you go there and download it, as soon as you download i will remove it.\n\nplease remember its still illegal.
1124499
Nothing personal, but if you are planning on sending out unsolicited emails to folks with whom you have no existing dealings you would be guilty of spamming.\n\nI would recommend that you hire a sales rep who can establish these business relationships on your behalf.\n\nHope this helps!
7514
why would you just give away your e-mail address like that?
548309
Not with 100% certainty, no. You can get their IP address from an email, but if they're using a proxy, or a relay server (which nearly every spammer does), the IP you're get is going to be the IP of the proxy, which could be anywhere in the world, any distance from the actual sender.
112541
Yes you can use an anonymizer. This allows you to surf anonimously and send email to people even proportedly from their own IP.\nhttp://www.answers.com/anonymizer?gwp=12&method=2
539067
you can't\nanyone can make an account and send mail out as anyone else. I suggest you do not have a catchall or default e-mail address and that if mail is sent to an address not specifically configured under your domain, you bounce it.\n\nResponsible spam filtering software will not give you trouble, as they block mail coming from a specific IP, specific messages or following spam patterns. \n\nIf you can identify from which smtp (outgoing mail) server the mail is being sent by looking at the headers of a message, you can find out which ISP is responsible for that IP and semnd a complaint to their abuse department.
1027565
Not clever to post your e-mail address-  there are programs that trawl webpages looking for addresses from which to send all that spam.\n\nThis IS a Q&A  forum not a T&A bulletin board.  Please try Yahoo!Chat or MySpace.com if you're on the prowl
567994
Any time you are asked for your email address on a form, digital or paper, there's a chance that that email address will be sold to an unscrupulous company that will send you spam, and probably sold on to other company's.  People who send out spam will often use a piece of software that will generate a list of email addresses by putting names to well known domains like @yahoo.co.uk or @yahoo.com ad nauseum.
869415
Don't go on distributing your email address.
555684
I dont think you can as if you could the email addresses would get spammed non stop\n\nChris,\nhttp://newxbox.net/
274611
Generally you can add the specific address in there.  If you are using exchange you should have an antivirus package like sybari or trend anyway.  They have anti-spam features in them.
12634
Check the email filters for whoever you are using as your service.  Could be picking those up as junk mail.
80268
When you post on random places on the web your email gets taken by malcious bots that mindlessly spam advertisements. by not posing your email on sites, you wont get spam.