andy206uk — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:22:59 +0000

You probably could using an ActiveX control to read certain files on the hard drive, but thats bad and wrong, and would only work in IE.

vexcom — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:11:59 +0000

There is no way to grab email addresses. If there was I would have thousands of them

Seriously, you can get the ISP and some ISP CGI variables may in someway reveal an email address, but it would be so 1 in a 100 or more type thing it would be impossible.

The only good way is to put part of your info up as a teaser, then request they provide a valid email for the rest of it. We do a thing that gives people a free example report if they join up - that sort of thing works well cause it brings in qualified leads.

Other than that there is no reason to want the email address - who cares about every tom **** and harry coming to your site, you only want to sepnd time with people that are serious.

HTH

digitalwicked — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:09:17 +0000

I don't think that's at all possible.

However, I understand that there are "spiders" that scan web pages for email addresses found in html code. Which is why I will only publish my email address on my sites with as an image not text.

cmonkey — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:48:27 +0000

rfigley, I believe Davemo~ answered this same question on WMT yesterday, it is possible, sort of, but this kind of info gathering is very shady and unprofessional, if your friend wants to gather email addresses, tell him to set up some sort of opt-in script on his site, let people volunteer their personal info, don't try and trick them into it.

brady.k — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:52:43 +0000

Not possible...browsers do not store your email address.

mandyfan — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:45:24 +0000

Isn't there a Perl Script for that? about a hundred bucks I think....