The Harvesters Part 1

By Laurie Rogers
Posted Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Before you start reading this article, I need to clear something up. We're not talking about the people that gather in the fall to pick all those luscious goodies out of gardens every year! I am sorry to disappoint you, I am sure that would have made for a pretty interesting topic, and they probably do not get the credit they deserve. But I have something a lot MORE exciting to talk about.

Today, we're going to talk about all of the wonderful folks who LOVE to go around picking email addresses! You must know who I am talking about now? They all have nothing better to do, so they roam around the internet and hit every web site, ezine and newsletter, opt-in list, safe -list, discussion group or board, classified and FFA online, to gather as many email addresses as they possibly can!

You really have to give them credit, because harvesting email addresses takes talent to do, not to mention brains! I can't for the life of me imagine how stressful a "business" like that must be. "Well today was a bad day, I ONLY got 17,369 addresses". You have to feel sorry for him don't cha? He must be having a hard time grasping the concept! He'd better start learning from the Pro's,

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What on earth are these people thinking? Are they new? Are they just plain STUPID? I'm not even going to ask where their morals are. I think what really get's us going is, how nice it is to have so much time on their hands, and so graciously grant themselves the right to HARVEST and then, SELL our email addresses! What do they do wake up and decide, "well I think I'll start harvesting email addresses"?

What would make anyone stoop to that level? You can't tell me they're bored, because there are tons of things to do online. I personally keep asking for an extra 4 or 5 hours added to the day just so I can get MY work done on time! I guess I just don't get it. (Oh but I do get their spam and TON'S of it, which is the reason WHY I need those extra 4 to 5 hours added to MY busy day!)

About the Author
Laurie Rogers is co-author of the Ezine Resource Guide, (http://www.zineadz.com/erg.html) She is the owner of Optin Frenzy - a paid list building program for ezine publishers (http://www.optinfrenzy.com) You can obtain more of Laurie's articles at: mailto:ezinearticles@optinfrenzy.com