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Since the contact information is free form, after the contact information has been obtained it will be necessary to parse it to extract the valid email address(es). The modification would be needed in checkdata_gif.pl. It may be simpler in many cases to clean up the formatting of the email addresses in NODEDETAILS.
Second step
Once this is done,the next step would be to automate testing so that if we have not been able to gather data from the site for the last 7 days (checkdata_gif.pl provides the number of adjacent days we have been unable to gather data from the site) or more then see if.
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