email extraction

[Jarratt]

Is there a script out there that automatically extracts email addresses when users hit your home page?

[oodie]

There's no way you can get email addresses from visitors unless they give them to you (filling a form, join newsletters, etc) because they are not included in HTTP headers.

[mjames]

Plus, I don't think that would be legal or moral to do that... almost like spamming.

[necrominator]

impossible

[mjames]

Originally posted by necrominator
impossible

Necrominator (nice name, BTW) - you seem to be a one-word replier. LOL. I guess some of us REALLY want to raise our post level.

[necrominator]

This guy just deserves a one work answer, its IMPOSSIBLE nothing else could be said about this, there is NOTHING that could do it, thus impossible.

[qslack]

postmaster, webmaster, abuse, president, newsmaster, all @REMOTE_HOST. If there's only an IP then don't e-mail, it'd be a private user. So say I visited and my REMOTE_HOST was aboutpcs.com, you'd e-mail postmaster@aboutpcs.com if I had violated one of your rules while entering my email address on your page (a crude example..).

Note: don't use this for spamming. It was meant to show you this could be done if the site follows E-mail address standards, in case you had a *reason* to email people. It will also work maybe 10% or less of the time.

[Edited by d3v on 09-08-2000 at 05:16 PM]