Pulling email addresses

[Tony Bove-Dallas]

I have a non-commercial site that I need a script to track the email
addresses of people that visit. Can anybody help?

In a perfect world, I'd receive an autogenerated email with the e-dress
of the visitor, but it isn't a perfect world, so if you have a
suggestion, please speak up. Thanks.

Cheers, T.

[Vjekoslav Begovic]

Re: Pulling email addresses

"Tony Bove-Dallas" <bove-dallas@sympatic o.ca> wrote:
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> I have a non-commercial site that I need a script to track the email
> addresses of people that visit. Can anybody help?[/color]

No.

[kaeli]

Re: Pulling email addresses

In article <3FBBB5C7.2A2E3 B05@sympatico.c a>, bove-dallas@sympatic o.ca
enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> I have a non-commercial site that I need a script to track the email
> addresses of people that visit. Can anybody help?
>
> In a perfect world, I'd receive an autogenerated email with the e-dress
> of the visitor, but it isn't a perfect world, so if you have a
> suggestion, please speak up. Thanks.
>[/color]

In a normal internet environment, it is not possible to reliably get the
e-mail address of visitors.

Thank god.


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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Pulling email addresses

Tony Bove-Dallas <bove-dallas@sympatic o.ca> writes:
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> I have a non-commercial site that I need a script to track the email
> addresses of people that visit. Can anybody help?[/color]

Make a form and ask them to submit their e-mail.
Nothing else works (thank <deity>!).
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> In a perfect world, I'd receive an autogenerated email with the e-dress
> of the visitor, but it isn't a perfect world, so if you have a
> suggestion, please speak up. Thanks.[/color]

How do you know that they even have an e-mail address?
It is quite possible (although not overly plausible) to use a browser
without having any e-mail address at all.

/L
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[kaeli]

Re: Pulling email addresses

In article <k75wmbaj.fsf@h otpop.com>, lrn@hotpop.com enlightened us
with...[color=blue]
>
> How do you know that they even have an e-mail address?
> It is quite possible (although not overly plausible) to use a browser
> without having any e-mail address at all.[/color]

Actually, IME, it is very common to not have a default mail client that
one uses (which would be the only way to pick up a user's e-mail addy).
People using yahoo, hotmail, etc with no POP3 would access via the web
only. I know of many, many people who don't use Outlook, but instead use
a web mail that comes with their ISP (AT & T, Comcast, and other ISPs
have a web interface one can use) or use yahoo or hotmail online.
Also, anyone using school computers, library computers, internet cafe
computers, and other public access systems would not have a default
client. They would use web mail.

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Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.

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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Pulling email addresses

kaeli <tiny_one@NOSPA M.comcast.net> writes:
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> Actually, IME, it is very common to not have a default mail client that
> one uses[/color]
....

Definitly. I was talking about using the web without *having* an
e-mail-address at all, not just not having it available. That would mean
that no amount of mojo would be able to conjure the e-mail-address.
Your example is "only" physically impossible, not logically impossible :)

/L
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[Dr John Stockton]

Re: Pulling email addresses

JRS: In article <k75wmbaj.fsf@h otpop.com>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrn@hotpop.com >
posted at Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:02:44 :-[color=blue]
>
>How do you know that they even have an e-mail address?
>It is quite possible (although not overly plausible) to use a browser
>without having any e-mail address at all.[/color]

Not so; it is perfectly possible. I can use a browser at the local
Public Library, without having any corresponding E-mail facility; they
are open to any Library user.

The only way of getting a fairly reliable E-mail address is to ask for
one, being sure to provide sufficient incentive for it to be correct.

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