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Spider - technical definition
An automated program that reads Web pages from a Website and
then follows the hypertext (HTTP)
links to other pages. Spammers
use spiders to sift through Web pages to look for (that is, harvest) email addresses.
See Also: Bot or Robot; Electronic Mail or Email; HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol); Spammers.
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