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In article <BxxvnD.75x@rice.edu> Twyla <Twyla@pop.rice.edu> writes:
>In article <1992Nov16.075625.3375@tdb.uu.se> Mats Bredell,
>bredell@tdb.uu.se writes:
>>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.
>Of course your solution does require the person be on UNIX.  Another
>method might be
>telneting to bruno.cs.coloradu.edu , logging in as netfind and following
>the instructions there.

There is also WAIStation, which can use the "usenet-addresses" server to
find a person's address.  Here's the blurb that WAIStation returns from
the server:

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Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Nov 13 15:53:33 1991 by
emv@cedar.cic.net


usenet-addresses	e-mail addresses of people who post to Usenet

This is a WAIS database containing one-line entries
from the USENET addresses database on pit-manager.mit.edu.  This
database is also available via anonymous ftp in the file
	pit-manager.mit.edu:/pub/usenet-addresses/addresses 
Furthermore, there is a mail server interface to it -- send mail to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with 'help' in the body of the
message in order to receive more information.

You can search for the address of people who have posted to the USENET
simply by using their names, or possibly components of their address
(e.g. domain names), as seeds words to search in this database.

It is similar in spirit to the ``netfind'' server that Michael Schwartz
from the U of Colorado, Boulder describes in his papers on resource
discovery available from
	latour.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/RD.Papers/White.Pages.ps.Z

Other WAIS tools for finding people:
  usenet-addresses      e-mail addresses of people who post to usenet
  college-email         how to find e-mail addresses at universities
  uumap                 UUCP mapping project maps (comp.mail.maps)
  bitearn.nodes         BITNET, CREN, EARN, NETNORTH site contacts
  domain-contacts       WHOIS information for nic.ddn.mil
  fidonet-nodelist	FIDO network node contacts
  disi-catalog          X.500 client and server software notes

Discipline specific address databases include:
  aimb			Molecular biologists and artificial intelligence


This server is also running at pit-manager.mit.edu, port 210, database
name usenet-addresses.  Jonathan Kames (jik@pit-manager.mit.edu) is
responsible for the data.

--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, emv@msen.com, emv@cic.net

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