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by andwur 3577 days ago
If you're relying on crawlers to build your database how do you plan on dealing with spam traps? I see you have a verification aspect to your service but from what detail you have provided it would be incapable of distinguishing legitimate from trap.

Their presence in your lists could ultimately render the service useless as users risk blacklisting by contacting such addresses.

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To be honest, we probably won't try and filter out spam traps. Our service is really meant to aid you in finding specific emails.

Given that, we will be implementing multiple verification and confidence checks for each email address. This is to help ensure a given email address is for a real person, with multiple legitimate web sources listing it, before you ever send a message.