Steve, PMFJI but unsolicited email is unsolicited email is spam. A spam by any other name still smells as sweet, NOT! I would'nt do dude. You can end up doing more damage then good.


>Wayne,
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>I should clarify. I don't think I have to worry about spamming.
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>I just want to collect e-mail addresses for certain industries using keyword searches. I want to add them to a DB. I am not going to do mass mailings from the DB.
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>For example, I end up with all the pharmaceutical company e-mail addresses in a DB. And then choose a different kind of company and have them in another DB.
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>I am going to write individualized, personalized e-mails to each e-mail address, thereby, avoiding spamming. I hope. I know this way is more work, but I think personlized gets much better response rates.