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keyplyr

8:25 am on Dec 26, 2015 (gmt 0)

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UA: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; etoolsbot/1.0; +https://etools.io/bots/)
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt: No
Host: LeaseWeb
85.17.0.0 - 85.17.255.255
85.17.0.0/16

Basic info finder tools. Not sure why they're building an index. Possibly for reasons yet to be seen.

w3bmastine

7:19 am on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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I registered with them to see what's up. Among other things, they collect contact information for marketing purposes. "#1 Tool for Selling to Websites". And "Find any website's emails - Find other associated sites - Know more, sell better".

Decided to block them.

lucy24

9:39 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Among other things, they collect contact information for marketing purposes.
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Find any website's emails

Weird. You'd think, wouldn't you, that in order to run a profitable company you'd need some rudimentary knowledge of how real life operates. And yet here they are, promoting a tactic which will lead them nowhere except straight into everyone's Spam folder.

keyplyr

10:11 pm on Jan 26, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Yup, they're a real tool.

Don't get the "spam folder" reference though since it isn't them that's sending emails... they just supply the tool that gathers email addresses for marketers & those who may choose to spam AFAIK.

However someone must be opening those emails and making it worthwhile to spam since it keeps increasing despite the numerous efforts to stop it. I'm getting close to 300 per day now, most of which do end up in that spam folder but since I am in business I feel compelled to at least give them all a glance before purging.