.jeff : actually, that shoud do the trick too .... ! [a past-mindset (below) overlooked the obvious :) ] the mentioned javascript method : i used it in a very similar way to pass some randomly generated info transparently to a remote site , from a static html website. >or, skip the javascript dependency entirely and just call the url directly >in the <img> tag. ><img > src="http://x.com/sendmail/mail.asp?txtFrom=Me@1stperson.com" > height="1" > width="1">