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- From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
- Subject: Re: How to find someone on the internet by name?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.075625.3375@tdb.uu.se>
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- Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:56:25 GMT
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- Me? Graduated? Nope. Not yet. (ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu) wrote:
- : I understand that it is possible to find someone's account
- : name on the Internet using their real name. I realized I could
- : use this facct to find a friend of mine from elementary school.
- : This assumes that he has an account somewhere on the Internet.
- : I think theis is likely. His father was a professor, and he was
- : a very bright guy. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he had an
- : account.
- : So, how does one find a person's user account using just
- : their first and last name?
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- From the unix prompt, type "whois <name>". This requires that the person
- you're looking for has been registered in a database for this service.
- See the man page of whois for more information.
-
- /Mats
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