There's nothing wrong in using Access if you happen to use Windows and do not need to access the Access database from the web (that is if you do not need to make many concurrent connections). It allows you to create nice forms and reports easily, it's something Windozers can feel at home with, ...

Using ADO from Perl on the other hand IS a little strange. It adds too much overhead. IMHO of course.

On the other hand I can't think of a decent reason to extract emails from webpages. There are quite a few for extracting URLs, but emails?

Jenda