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- Internet White Pages Services
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- Gopher
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- Gopher menu titles followed by <CSO> are phone book services.
- Gopher to gopher.nd.edu /Non-Notre Dame Information Sources/
- Phone Books--Other Institutions/ This gopher will also lead
- you to an X.500 gateway for worldwide phone book searches.
- This archive is mirrored at ra.msstate.edu.
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- Whois Servers
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- There are many whois servers in the world. You can obtain a list
- via anonymous ftp (use archie to find out where) or more easily
- use Veronica and search for "whois serve*". To search a named
- whois server enter: whois -h [whois.servers.name] [name of person].
- Entering both first and last names of person requires single
- quotes: whois -h whois.internic.net 'elmer fudd.'
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- The Knowbot
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- Telnet to info.cnri.va us 185. Issue the command: query [name].
- Use the ? command to get help screens. The Knowbot searches
- MCI mail databases as well as many Internet databases.
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- Fred
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- Fred (FRont End to the Directory) searches X.500 directories.
- Telnet to wp.psi.com or wp2.psi.com. Log in as fred. Use the
- help command to get details.
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- Usenet Addresses
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- Email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu. In the body of the letter
- type the line: send usenet-address/[name] where name is the last
- name of the person you are looking for. If your person has ever
- posted to a Usenet newsgroup he may be in this database. This
- database may also be searched via WAIS.
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- Netfind
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- Telnet to a netfind server and log in as netfind. Choose 2 from
- the menu that will appear ("Search"). Enter your search terms
- separated by spaces: fudd csusm california.
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- Public Netfind Servers
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- Alabama redmont.cis.uab.edu 138.26.64.4
- Colorado bruno.cs.colorado.edu 128.138.243.151
- Minnesota mudhoney.micro.umn.edu 134.84.132.7
- Texas netfind.oc.com 192.82.215.92
- Virginia ds.internic.net 198.49.45.10
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