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Article #10154Re: How to find someone on the internet by name?
From: Mats Bredell
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:56
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:56
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Me? Graduated? Nope. Not yet. (ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu) wrote: : I understand that it is possible to find someone's account : name on the Internet using their real name. I realized I could : use this facct to find a friend of mine from elementary school. : This assumes that he has an account somewhere on the Internet. : I think theis is likely. His father was a professor, and he was : a very bright guy. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he had an : account. : So, how does one find a person's user account using just : their first and last name? From the unix prompt, type "whois <name>". This requires that the person you're looking for has been registered in a database for this service. See the man page of whois for more information. /Mats -- Mats Bredell Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC) Ph: +46 18 187817 Department of medical systems Fax: +46 18 187825 Sweden Think straight - be gay!
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