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- About Netfind November 1993
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- Netfind is a way of finding internet e-mail addresses. It relies on
- common but not universal programs, and so may not find some people with
- valid addresses. The most foolproof way of finding someone's e-mail
- address remains to call them up on the phone and ask.
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- All Netfind sites are functionally equivalent. Multiple ones are listed
- here in case some are overloaded or down with technical problems.
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- How to Search Using Netfind
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- Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of where
- the person works, Netfind attempts to locate information about the person.
- When prompted, enter a name followed by a set of keywords, such as
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- schwartz university colorado boulder
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- The name can be a first, last, or login name. The keys describe where the
- person works, by either the name of the institution or the city/state/country.
- If you know the institution's domain name (e.g., "cs.colorado.edu", where there
- are host names like "brazil.cs.colorado.edu") you can specify it as keys
- without the dots (e.g., "cs colorado edu"). Keys are case insensitive and may
- be specified in any order. Using more than one key implies the logical AND of
- the keys. Specifying too many keys may cause searches to fail. If this
- happens, try specifying fewer keys, e.g.,
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- schwartz boulder
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- If you specify keys that match many domains, Netfind will list some of the
- matching domains/organizations and ask you to form a more specific search.
- Note that you can use any of the words in the organization strings (in addition
- to the domain components) as keys in future searches.
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- When Netfind runs, it displays a trace of the parallel search progress,
- along with the results of the searches.
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- For further information see the online help available on the Netfind
- servers. Send comments/questions to schwartz@cs.colorado.edu, please.
- If you would like to be added to the netfind-users list (for software
- updates and other discussions, etc.), send mail to
- netfind-users-request@cs.colorado.edu.
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