Ken,

Yes, there is software that does that. Some people call them bots, other people call them spiders. But they basically do the same thing, scan a web page and get info from it. Some bots do shopping (like all the shopping comparison sites), and others grab email addresses. Ever since I started coming to remotecentral.com, klipsch.com and hometheaterforum.com, my hotmail inbox has filled up with junk mail. At first I thought maybe they were selling their email lists, but then I realized most of these sites wouldn't do that, and people are probably using bots to gather that data. It's cheaper for them, and no one knows they are doing it.

That's the price you gotta pay to be on the internet. That's why I use a hotmail account on these forums - I just turn on the junkmail filter and don't worry about it.

Bryan