Why are you promoting spamware through your website? This is the sort of tools spammers use to harvest addresses from Usenet and other online sources. You are either part of the problem, or part of the solution. By publishing and promoting press releases from Spanish spamware authors, you are now part of the spam problem. Shame on you.

MaxProg makes a great set of inexpensive tools that mid-size businesses can use to manage their mass email communications. These tools save me so much time that they've paid for themselves about 50 times over.

Granted, these tools can be used to spam, but legitimate businesses can't afford to run afoul of the numerous blacklists out there. If you're a true spammer, you don't give a $#!%. You close that server down and open one of the others you've got waiting. For legitimate businesses it's far more hassle than it's worth. And once you have a large house list to work with, tools that alow you to handle bulk mail are an absolute necessity.

Extractor, for example, can be used to extract every aol address, every hotmail address, or every address on my list from any other domain. So when I get the occassional request to change or remove every smallcompany.com email address from my list (which I can't do without the actual individual addresses) I run the whole list through Extractor, which filters for just that address.

And you conveniently don't point out that you're a spam supporter yourself. After all, you use a computer, and spammers use computers to send email to people with computers. By giving spammers an audience, you are now part of the problem. Shame on you.

See how easy it is to engage in those reductio ad absurdium arguments?

Well said, jfbiii. These sorts of tools definitely have legit uses, and their potential for spam does not detract from that use.

Your reductio ad stupidium argument shows you know nothing of logic. Perhaps you would find a better argument by saying this spamware vendor is like a bullet manufacturer, bullets never killed anyone without a gun, so bullet vendors are completely blameless when someone gets shot, right? This argument is as hollow as your own, even if it has some basis in reality (unlike yours).

There is no legitimate business purpose for email address extractors. Legitimate usinesses do not accumulate large texts with random email addresses scattered throughout, like you would harvest from Usenet or websites. Even your example of a "legitimate" purpose for this spamware product is ridiculous. You could more easily extract addresses from your list that come from certain domains using grep. But eMail Extractor exists solely for the purpose of harvesting email addresses for spammers, with no other purpose.