5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
2:12 a.m.
Many moons ago, there used to be directories of email address. While
not the most complete, they could be useful for tracking people down.
I'm searching for a couple of people that I used to work with, and am
wondering if anything like this exists in a modern sense. Ideally I
want something that can search on user names, as I know the ones
they're most likely using.
Zane
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5 Aug
5 Aug
3:57 a.m.
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Many moons ago, there used to be directories of email
address. While
not the most complete, they could be useful for tracking people down.
I'm searching for a couple of people that I used to work with, and am
wondering if anything like this exists in a modern sense. Ideally I
want something that can search on user names, as I know the ones
they're most likely using.
Will post thius publicly because it's quite useful. I used it to find a
good old friend from high school recently (just using the free service).
http://www.zabasearch.com
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8:46 p.m.
My experience has been that it's easiest to search for names via Google,
find out where the live / work, and then pick up the telephone.
We can be so addicted to email today that it's easy to forget about dialing
411.
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Subject: Re: Totally OT: email directories?
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Many moons ago, there used to be directories of email
address. While
not the most complete, they could be useful for tracking people down.
I'm searching for a couple of people that I used to work with, and am
wondering if anything like this exists in a modern sense. Ideally I
want something that can search on user names, as I know the ones
they're most likely using.
Will post thius publicly because it's quite useful. I used it to find a
good old friend from high school recently (just using the free service).
http://www.zabasearch.com
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Festival
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9 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 20:46 -0400, 'Computer Collector Newsletter'
wrote:
My experience has been that it's easiest to search
for names via Google,
find out where the live / work, and then pick up the telephone.
Yep, there is that - at least when the person you're trying to reach is
in the same country anyway (although international call prices are
pretty cheap these days, at least from the UK)
We can be so addicted to email today that it's
easy to forget about dialing
411.
I just tried that from here and get a "number disconnected" message ;)
cheers
Jules
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8:15 a.m.
>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy
<healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
Zane> Many moons ago, there used to be directories of email address.
Zane> While not the most complete, they could be useful for tracking
Zane> people down. I'm searching for a couple of people that I used
Zane> to work with, and am wondering if anything like this exists in
Zane> a modern sense. Ideally I want something that can search on
Zane> user names, as I know the ones they're most likely using.
Try Google.
Apart from that, I don't remember those things (phone and address, yes
-- switchboard.com was an early one, and of course Google does that,
too). In this age of spam, no sane person would cooperate with an
email directory anymore...
paul
8:13 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 23:12 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Many moons ago, there used to be directories of email
address. While
not the most complete, they could be useful for tracking people down.
I'm searching for a couple of people that I used to work with, and am
wondering if anything like this exists in a modern sense.
No idea. I used to use deja/google's usenet archive for this as it used
to be really handy (particularly when it came to messing with obscure
vintage computers!).
Of course they don't display the whole email address in the archives any
more, so it's no longer possible to do this :-(
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