Check out http://www.roverbot.com/
It is a new seach utility that scans Webpages to get email addresses. You can customize it to give you (for example) all chemistry related email addresses. It is fairly simple idea, but it will probably create some complex problems.
I don't like this development at all; I am already getting much more junk mail than I like (including to a machine from which I can't send any mail; I really wonder how that address became public). Maybe someone should write another "utility" that creates a web page with lots of fictitious e-mail addresses in them, changing frequently. The existence of many such pages would render the search robot useless in practice. I also predict an increased demand for mail filters will kill files... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsenk@ere.umontreal.ca Departement de chimie | Tel.: +1-514-343-6111 ext. 3953 Universite de Montreal | Fax: +1-514-343-7586 C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/Nederlands/ Montreal (QC) H3C 3J7 | Francais (phase experimentale) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)