[penguicon-general] anyone out there know....??

[Lady Sarah]

Oh, the other company is getting an FTP feed from us.  However, they are
required to take all possible steps to prevent others from scraping our data
off their site.  This is why our board decided there should be a limit on
the number of listings returned per search; their theory was if you had to
return to a search page and enter new criteria to get more listings the data
would not be anywhere near as likely to be scraped.

If we are completely off base with this, please let me know because it could
change everything!
Sarah

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Lady Sarah wrote:
>
> > You have found my opinion exactly; though I'm not 100% sure about the
> "use
> > it elsewhere" part, personally I'm voting on the whiny "we don't want to
> > rewrite all of our code to conform to your rules" variant right now.  I
> > would LOVE to tell him that, "hey, we'll just save your broker the
> $10/month
> > and turn this off now, ok?" but the powers above me are insisting to
> > researching this programming language and another point we're sticking on
> > before going that route.  I'm afraid I'm just not that patient.
>
> Scraping data is always the wrong solution to any problem.  If your
> company wants to share this data with another company, it is a lot more
> sensible to work out a proper data exchange format.  Since this is using
> Ajax, XML is probably the right format.
>
> If you would like contact me off list and I can be of some assistance.  Or
> call me.
>
> Clay Dowling
> 810-869-4390
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