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telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu login: netfind (no password) I have that in my daily planner as the "White Pages" for the Internet. Haven't tried it recently, though.
Netfind is my usual technique too, but I generally use netfind.oc.com. There are also lots of other netfind servers. You will be shown the list if you log into one.
On MSU-gopher network resources/by type/archie servers/at&t archie server login as guest NOT as archie. They've got 3 servers there: netfind, whois, and x-500. Try all three! Another way that works for me sometimes is to see if the school has a gopher system and then get into their gopher and then look up the person in the schools own directory. There are also some other gopher thingies for looking up people at various schools I think, but I forget where they are. Good Luck!
If you know the name of the school, I would try the "netmailsites" from the hermes.merit.edu "which host?" prompt. It has always been a reliable information source, but it requires a little patience to find the right name combination.
I could not find myself at the UM, either at @um, or @engin, with netfind.oc.com (it said their name servers weren't responding), but had no trouble at grex. x-500 should have worked, but I didn't try it. Nothing is "infallible".
It is going to take quite a while before there's something like a nationwide internet white pages server, but I think one's likely to turn up eventually. I recently tried using finger & whois to look at my brother-in-law at (whatever that school is named). I *have* his email address, but the machine refuses finger && whois queries. If you can locate the machine, you can try emailing postmaster. But why not just ask your sister to find out & let you know, Valerie? It's likely to be easier for her than for you.
There's a flyer/faq at UM about this. The bottom line in that paper is something like call them on the phone & ask them to send you an e-mail message...
Why didn't you just tell her to mail to popcorn@cyberspace.org? Do you expect that she'll have an easier time figuring out how to get mail from you than sending it to you? I'll go ahead and link this to Internet.
I should say I've linked it from info 140 to internet 45.
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doesn't pher access e-mail phone books and all that stuff? I found lots of people across the country, with it.
popcorn:
I hope that this helps.
--------------------netmailsites info------------------------
:Enter the name of a site -> hunter
There are 2 sites found for HUNTER
Bitnet Sites:
HUNTER City University of New York CUNY Hunter
College
UUCP Sites:
xdos Hunter Systems Inc.
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Gopher, I assume.
It's likeley to be on cunyvm.cuny.edu, as that's the only machine that Hunter gives it's student accounts on. Often, they use an initial naming system, where the first three letters are the initial, first two letters of the first name with first of last name, or first letter of first name with first two letters of last name (depending on if there is a middle name/collision The fourth and fifth letters are hc for hunter college (or differen if from a different school). If you give me her full name, I can try to look it up, if it was that recent, it should be posted. And cunyvm doesn't accept finger connects, natch. mneme (AKA, when I'm being masochistic, jokhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu)
Does anyone know how to get an e-mail address for someone who is using America On Line? I have his loggin name but dont know what goes after the @ sign. Thanks in advance.
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Thanks steve. Ill try it now.
What about people at big corporations? It seems a lot easier to get phone numbers for these people than their logins. Are corporate logins shrouded in secrecy for some reason or are they just not yet with it?
Hmm...firewalls? Corporate policy on the use of e-mail? One oft-recommended method of getting such a person's e-mail address is just as you say: reach them via some other means (snail mail or telephone call) and ask them to send an e-mail message to you. I suspect, in general, big cos. are sick of being mail-bombed or of being sent unsolicited e-mail (trying to sell them something or otherwise get something out of them), such that they tend to guard their domains rather jealously. E-mail can be a big time-waster for employees, also, especially since it is easily used for personal correspondence. In that case, there may be severe penalties for the employee, making them less likely to give out e-mail addresses to friends and acquaintances. The "not yet with it" hypothesis may also be true. Believe it or not, many companies are just now finding out about the uses of the Internet (and even so, many do not believe--often with good justification--that a presence there is worth all the trouble). I've also seen companies that received their e-mail through an ISP rather than have it sent to their own domain. You might not even know enough to guess which ISP...
You can often get an e-mail address by writing to postmaster@site, even if it is a big corporation. If you don't know the site, try the whowhere web search engine. It has a lot, but by no means most e-mail adresses. http://whowhere.com/
adn this is the listing for us ...up there <<?detroit?>>
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Great, no wonder webmaster gets all the staff-related mail. Couldn't be bothered to use staff@cyberspace.org instead, huh? Twits.
and how'd we end up in Detroit?
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