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- From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
- Subject: Re: How to find someone on the internet by name?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.140127.28365@mmm.serc.3m.com>
- Organization: 3M Company
- References: <15NOV199221402563@utkvx3.utk.edu> <BxxvnD.75x@rice.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:01:27 GMT
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- In article <BxxvnD.75x@rice.edu> Twyla <Twyla@pop.rice.edu> writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.075625.3375@tdb.uu.se> Mats Bredell,
- >bredell@tdb.uu.se writes:
- >>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.
- >Of course your solution does require the person be on UNIX. Another
- >method might be
- >telneting to bruno.cs.coloradu.edu , logging in as netfind and following
- >the instructions there.
-
- There is also WAIStation, which can use the "usenet-addresses" server to
- find a person's address. Here's the blurb that WAIStation returns from
- the server:
-
- ----------
-
- Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Nov 13 15:53:33 1991 by
- emv@cedar.cic.net
-
-
- usenet-addresses e-mail addresses of people who post to Usenet
-
- This is a WAIS database containing one-line entries
- from the USENET addresses database on pit-manager.mit.edu. This
- database is also available via anonymous ftp in the file
- pit-manager.mit.edu:/pub/usenet-addresses/addresses
- Furthermore, there is a mail server interface to it -- send mail to
- mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with 'help' in the body of the
- message in order to receive more information.
-
- You can search for the address of people who have posted to the USENET
- simply by using their names, or possibly components of their address
- (e.g. domain names), as seeds words to search in this database.
-
- It is similar in spirit to the ``netfind'' server that Michael Schwartz
- from the U of Colorado, Boulder describes in his papers on resource
- discovery available from
- latour.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/RD.Papers/White.Pages.ps.Z
-
- Other WAIS tools for finding people:
- usenet-addresses e-mail addresses of people who post to usenet
- college-email how to find e-mail addresses at universities
- uumap UUCP mapping project maps (comp.mail.maps)
- bitearn.nodes BITNET, CREN, EARN, NETNORTH site contacts
- domain-contacts WHOIS information for nic.ddn.mil
- fidonet-nodelist FIDO network node contacts
- disi-catalog X.500 client and server software notes
-
- Discipline specific address databases include:
- aimb Molecular biologists and artificial intelligence
-
-
- This server is also running at pit-manager.mit.edu, port 210, database
- name usenet-addresses. Jonathan Kames (jik@pit-manager.mit.edu) is
- responsible for the data.
-
- --Ed
- Edward Vielmetti, emv@msen.com, emv@cic.net
-
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