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robh
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Grex and the Internet White Pages
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May 8 03:10 UTC 1994 |
Has anybody seen a book called _The_Internet_White_Pages_ ?
I saw it at Barnes & Noble today. It's a list of the
100,000 or so Internet users that this one guy could get addresses
for. Imagine my surprise when I look my name up and found
myself there! Here's a list of the users from the
cyberspace.org domain who were included:
cicero
gandalf
gregc
jr
rlb
robh
scg
srw
tstest
tsty
I'm guessing he got these names from Usenet posts, I know I've
made a few.
I don't have anything profound to say about this, just thought
people would be interested.
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scg
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response 1 of 10:
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May 8 04:10 UTC 1994 |
If I'm in there, I should probably check it out. How much is in there?
Is it just name and e-mail address, or is there more?
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robh
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response 2 of 10:
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May 8 05:06 UTC 1994 |
Nope, just name and email address. That's it.
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rcurl
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response 3 of 10:
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May 8 06:39 UTC 1994 |
Amazing. Who would buy that? (I can imagine quite a few might
subscribe to it on line, however.)
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davel
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response 4 of 10:
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May 8 10:20 UTC 1994 |
And it's interesting that someone publishing a thing like that doesn't
try for a more complete list.
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robh
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response 5 of 10:
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May 8 14:05 UTC 1994 |
Given the number of Internet books I saw there, most of them
published within the last year, I expect this books falls
in the category of "expensive stuff that people don't really need
but will buy anyway because they have an expense account and
anyway it looks cool".
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rcurl
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response 6 of 10:
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May 8 20:49 UTC 1994 |
Of course, eventually it will be so big, that it will come out
for separate cities and their environs... ;->.
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bdp
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response 7 of 10:
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May 10 16:07 UTC 1994 |
Only 100,000?
Sheesh, he could've tried for a more complete list...
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dam
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response 8 of 10:
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May 14 16:29 UTC 1994 |
why would someone want this list? well, so they could enter it in
a computer and do junk-mail advertising.
it would be kinda like posting to every usenet news area... ;)
but you would be able to tell the person to take you off of his list.
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robh
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response 9 of 10:
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May 15 01:32 UTC 1994 |
Dave, there have GOT to be easier ways of getting lists of Internet
users than typing in 100,000 addresses from a book. >8)
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pegasus
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response 10 of 10:
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May 23 21:23 UTC 1994 |
Robert,
One funny (funny odd, not funny ha-ha) thing I've noticed is that people
like to put their address, and phone number in their .sig file that's
tacked to the end of posts. You can collect a lot of addresses that way.
We put that info in because we want people to contact us, but you'd think
those who wouldn't would know better than to post that info for millions
to read and enjoy. :)
Pattie
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