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- Finding / searching E-Mail addresses
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- DESCRIPTION OF TWO APPROACHES TO
- "LOOKING UP" EMAIL ADDRESSES
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- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 08:42:32 CDT
- Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
- Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
- From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
- Subject: Locating E-Mail Addresses
- To: Ernest Perez <EPEREZ@UTDALLAS.BITNET>
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- 2 Messages, 57 Lines
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- From: Helena M Vonville <hvonvill@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: locating e-mail addresses
-
- There was a request recently for the e-mail address to GEAC. I realize the
- information was to be sent to the person requesting the information but I
- wanted to share a search technique I learned recently at a workshop on
- locating e-mail addresses.
-
- There is a program called Netfind which will query the network to locate
- e-mail addresses. No, it's not perfect and you may get lots of false hits.
- But, I have used it several times with success so I will pass it along.
-
- Telnet to bruno.cs.colorado.edu and login as netfind. At the first prompt
- type s for search, then type the person's name and the location or name of
- the place you think they are located. In the GEAC example, I tried typing
- "smith geac canada" and got two general addresses to GEAC.
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- If you cannot pull up the exact address, it is possible to contact the
- postmaster at one of the relevant addresses and request the information
- needed. Expect a delay of a day or two although when I tried it the response
- time was less than ten minutes.
-
- Thanks for this information go to Jerry Martin at the Ohio State University.
-
- Helena VonVille
- Education/Psychology Library- Ohio State University
- hvonvill@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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- From: Helena M Vonville <hvonvill@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: addendum to locating addresses
-
- Before going into Netfind to locate an e-mail address, you may want to
- retrieve a list of Internet whois servers which is available through
- anonymous FTP. The list was collected and compiled by Matt Power of MIT.
- To retrieve, FTP sipb.mit.edu
- The file is located in /pub/whoi/whois-servers.list
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- To use, at your system prompt (if UNIX) type
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- whois -h server name name of person
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- ex. whois -h osu.edu vonville
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- Whois is different depending upon the system you log into. And the current
- list of Whois contains about 90 or so addresses (rough estimate). Many are
- major universities. But if you know the name of a person at one of the
- locations served by direct access to whois, this is a much faster way to get
- their address than going through Netfind.
-
- Please contact me directly if you have questions.
- Helena VonVille
- Education/Psychology- Ohio State Unversity
- hvonvill@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu