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Indeed a multi-net electronic email-addresses directory could be of
quite some importance especially to scientists. We already have
'finger' and similar services, but that wouldn't help us if we were
just looking for someone of whom we only know the name and the nation
or state he is from - i guess a lot of people know some others out there
who probably have email-addresses but both sides do not know.

What about a network directory then?
I heard BITNET has something like this - were everyone on the network
can subscribe to so that he can be reached the quickiest way.
Could this be realized in some relay system, where a message is passed from
server to server until a certain person is found, so a group of servers
could keep up a local directory each, being this then a kind of telnet
connection also othe services could be offered like dropping a note, like
an answering machine, for people who look for you, a kind of 'gone' message.
Also small conferences and dialogues could be handled through such a relay,
in fact, if you need a protocol for all of this you can find one that might
be suitable in comp.protocols.misc, it's the cafe conference protocol,
a development of mine of course ;-) which could ... should be used also
for this kind of services... However, there is no software using this
protocol yet :-( ... get in touch with me if you want to write some, or
if you do not like the protocol.

Hope I did'nt bore you too much - Ciao, the *Lynx*
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