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rfigley
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Email grabbing web page

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Help me settle an argument. A computer tech friend of mine swears he's heard and also experienced visiting webpages that have grabbed his email address and wants to do the same. I told him the only way for a site to get his address is if he provides it, or if they got it through data mining, or via other mailing lists, but there is not a way for a web page to grab your email address when you visit it.

Can anyone tell me I'm wrong?
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Weirdan
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Post by Weirdan »

nope. There's no legal way to grab your email address when you visit particular page. All the possibilities to do that could be considered hacking.
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