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Grex Internet Item 49: Grex and the Internet White Pages
Entered by robh on Sun May 8 03:10:40 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.

10 responses total.

#1 of 10 by scg on Sun May 8 04:10:20 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?

#2 of 10 by robh on Sun May 8 05:06:50 1994:

Nope, just name and email address.  That's it.

#3 of 10 by rcurl on Sun May 8 06:39:57 1994:

Amazing. Who would buy that? (I can imagine quite a few might
subscribe to it on line, however.)

#4 of 10 by davel on Sun May 8 10:20:06 1994:

And it's interesting that someone publishing a thing like that doesn't
try for a more complete list.

#5 of 10 by robh on Sun May 8 14:05:51 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".

#6 of 10 by rcurl on Sun May 8 20:49:21 1994:

Of course, eventually it will be so big, that it will come out
for separate cities and their environs... ;->.

#7 of 10 by bdp on Tue May 10 16:07:36 1994:

Only 100,000?
Sheesh, he could've tried for a more complete list...

#8 of 10 by dam on Sat May 14 16:29:37 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.

#9 of 10 by robh on Sun May 15 01:32:57 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)

#10 of 10 by pegasus on Mon May 23 21:23:50 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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