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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
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- Subject: Re: How does a PI locate somebody?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.193258.23010@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 19:32:58 GMT
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- In article <2JAN199307371121@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
- >A friend tells me that she used the services of a private
- >investigator to locate a boyfriend from high school days (25
- >years ago), mainly out of curiosity as to what had become of
- >him. She paid the PI something around $150-$200 for this, as I
- >recall, contingent on success in the search.
- >
- >The PI was able to find the former flame within a day using his
- >databases, the nature of which he wouldn't disclose to her. He
- >did say that he had worked for the Federal government in the
- >past.
- >
- >How did he do it?
-
- He used the "finger" command.
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