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Emailing and Instant Messaging is becoming the most critical type of communication – surpassing even the old standby, the phone. For many people, the workday begins by logging into their email client and retrieving email. The first few minutes of the day are occupied drinking coffee and responding to emails or instant messages received. Most people feel a general sense of anonymity when communicating via email or Instant Messages. This makes it very convenient to use emails and IM's, for conducting secretive activities such as extramarital affairs, cheating or other under the table dealings. This same sense of anonymity also makes it convenient to anonymously spread lies about someone or allow potentially dangerous individuals to harass you or your company via emails or Instant Messages, causing undue hardship and grief.

 

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College and School Email Addresses The College Email FAQ describes the account and E-mail address policies for graduate and undergraduate students at many universities and colleges. If you are looking for a university/college student, check those postings for the university or college in question and follow their instructions for finding out more.

This FAQ is also posted regularly to soc.college as a collection of postings whose subjects start with "College Email Addresses." If the postings have expired at your site or has not been posted recently, you can get a copy of them using the instructions below.

If the university has a PH (phonebook) server, it may be listed in the Colleges and Universities PH server directory.

ClassMates lets secondary school alumni freely register their e-mail addresses; the database covers US, Canada, and American Overseas high schools (2 million entries as of August, 1999). Searches require a fee. Alumni.NET has a smaller database (750,000 as of August 1999) but does not charge for searches.

Curious Cat Educated Connections indexes colleges, high schools, and grade schools in the USA, Canada, and Australia. You can register so that school friends can find you.

Usenet-addresses server If you think that your target may be on the Usenet and may have posted a message to the Usenet at some point in the past, you might be able to find his/her address in the Usenet address database on the machine rtfm.mit.edu.

To query the database, send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "send usenet-addresses/name" in the body of the message. The "name" should be one or more space-separated words for which you want to search; since the search is fuzzy (i.e., all of the words you specify do not have to match), you should list all of the words you think might appear in the address, including (for example) first and last name, possible username, and possible components of the host name (e.g. "mit" for a person who you think is at MIT). The case and order of the words you list are ignored.

Note that multiple requests can appear (on separate lines) in mail to the mail server, but each request will be answered in a separate message.

In many cases, you will get a list of quite a few matching addresses, and you will have to go through it looking for ones that may be the one you're looking for. However, the mail server will return a maximum of only 40 matches.

Note that the usenet-addresses database is accessible via WAIS (in fact, the script that does mail server searches is actually just a front-end to a WAIS database) on two different hosts: rtfm.mit.edu and cedar.cic.net. In both cases, the database is called "usenet-addresses" and is on port 210. Note that the version on rtfm is slightly more up-to-date with respect to the master address list than the version on cedar. If you don't know what WAIS is, then don't worry about this paragraph; if you're curious, see the "comp.infosystems.wais" newsgroup.

For more details about how to use the database, send the command "send usenet-addresses/help".

Inter-Network Mail Guide If you know which network/service your target has an account on (e.g. CompuServe, Fidonet), then the "Inter-Network Mail Guide" posting in comp.mail.misc *may* be able to provide you with some help, although it probably will not be particularly helpful unless you have some sort of address to start with (a small number of networks use full names as addresses, and the posting mentions when this is the case, but it doesn't apply in very many cases).

See the instructions below for getting a copy of this posting if it isn't available in comp.mail.misc at your site.

whois/nicname Entry Changed: Sat Dec 6 1997 Whois is the internet user name directory service. It's available on some UNIX systems as a command called "whois" or "nicname". Do

whois help or nicname -h to get a help message. The whois and nicname programs will check the database maintained at rs.internic.net (or nic.ddn.mil for U.S. military sites) for the given names. For example, nicname <name> or whois <name> or whois -h <host> <names> where <host> is some site with a whois server. This is only useful for people listed in the database. Many regional networks and some universities maintain their own NICs. You can also get some of this information by telneting to rs.internic.net and running whois and host there, or to nic.ddn.mil if you are looking for U.S. military personnel. Alternatively, you can issue a single command to the whois.internic.net server by typing "telnet whois.internic.net whois" in order to connect to it and then typing the command and hitting return; the "help" command will return several screens full of text, so if you need help, you should use a utility such as "tee" or "script" to capture the help message and save it for future reference.

If you do not have Internet access, you can send mail to whois@whois.internic.net to query the "whois" database; send a message with "help" in the body to find out more information.

Some sites run local "whois" databases to provide information about people inside their organizations. The only way to find out if your site runs such a database is to ask someone locally about it (see "Get more help locally" below), and the only way to find out about such databases at other sites (assuming, of course, that those databases are not mentioned in any of the other sources listed in this document) is to contact responsible individuals at those sites and ask (see "Finding a host name and asking someone there for help" below).

Other whois databases Quite a few other sites also run "whois" databases that can be connected to over the Internet using the whois protocol (using either the "whois" program or "telnet hostname whois" as described in the previous section). Some of those sites are listed here, and others are listed in a separate list, described in more detail below.

The Ohio State University runs a "whois" database (on the machine "osu.edu") that has all of the faculty, staff, and students listed. It responds to "whois" queries in the normal fashion, or you can just send mail to firstname.lastname@osu.edu and it will try to deliver e-mail if the person has registered an e-mail address. You can also telnet to osu.edu and look-up a person. If you are unsure of the spelling this is a good way, as it does a soundex type search so exact matches are not necessary. No password is necessary.

Matt H. Power of MIT <mhpower@athena.mit.edu> has compiled and maintains an extensive list of sites that run "whois" servers. The file can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from /pub/whois/whois-servers.list on sipb.mit.edu.

Other directory services There are several other directory services you may be able to use to search for your target.

The person you are searching for may be using Pobox.com, which provides permanent email forwarding addresses You submit to a searchable database your real name and some biographical information; you receive short, memorable email aliases at pobox.com that forward to your current real mailbox. Whatever your real address is, you can be found at and mailed through pobox.com. Pobox.com is growing very quickly and has amassed a substantial database. To sign up or find a subscriber, use the Web address or send mail to info@pobox.com

Other sources of permanent e-mail addresses include Yahoo and ActiveNames.

Many Bitnet sites have name servers that can be queried in one way or another. To get a list of them with documentation, send a mail message to listserv@bitnic.bitnet (a.k.a listserv@bitnic.educom.edu) with the command "send bitnet servers" in the body of the message.

The IBM Corporate Internet Gateway provides a directory of users (which I believe contains only IBM employees, although I'm not certain) that is available to anyone who can send E-mail to it. If your target works for IBM (or you suspect s/he does), then this might be useful to you.

To use it, send mail to nic@vnet.ibm.com with the command "whois lastname, firstname" in the subject or body of the message. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name, use an asterisk (*) to indicate that the last name should be treated as a prefix, rather than a complete name. The first name is always treated as a prefix. For example, "whois Smith*, R" would return all people with a last name starting with "Smith" and a first name starting with "R", while "whois Smith, R" would return only those people with exactly the last name "Smith" and a first name starting with "R".

Users of the directory are limited to 25 name searches per day. Each name that results is counted as a separate name search. For example, a single "whois Smith, R" that found Rodger Smith, Robert Smith, and Reginald Smith would count as three name searches. Multiple requests may be made in a single note provided that the number of names found does not exceed the daily limit of 25.

RPI runs a white pages server for people interested in the field of communications. To find out how to use it, send mail to comserve@rpitsvm.bitnet (or comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu) with "help" in the body of the message.

BITNIC (the BITNET Network Information Center) runs a name server of more general interest. To find out how to use it, send mail to netserv@bitnic.bitnet (again, netserv@bitnic.educom.edu can also be used) with "help" in the body of the message.

There is an X.500 white pages service run by UNINETT. It is accessible by sending mail to the address Directory@UNINETT.NO (send a message with "help" in the subject or body to get more information). Furthermore, there is software for UNIX available for use as a convenient interface to the service. It is available for anonymous ftp in ~ftp/directory/directory.tar.Z on the machine nac.no. Finally, if the administrator of your site registers your organization with UNINETT (instructions about doing so are available with the software just mentioned), people from your site can then register in the database so that other people can look them up in it.

AT&T Bell Labs runs a mailer on the host "att.com" that can get mail to about 400 employees in the Research Area of Bell Labs using their names as addresses. You can send mail to "lastname@att.com" or to "initials.lastname@att.com", where "initials" consists of one or more initials separated by dots. If the name is ambiguous, you will get a bounce message indicating several possible matches, and the appropriate address to use for each.

Tim Pozar has set up a WAIS server that contains the FidoNet email addresses of Sysops of FidoNet BBSs. You can access it by connecting to the "nodelist" WAIS database on port 210 of kumr.lns.com; use the name(s) for which you wish to search as your search keywords. See above for more information about WAIS.

PSI runs a X.500 directory server, accessible by sending mail to whitepages@wp.psi.com.

Information about hosts in the "ca" Internet domain (i.e., hosts in Canada) Is accessible via anonymous ftp to ftp.CDNnet.CA, or by mail to archive-server@relay.CDNnet.CA. You can get site domain names and host names, as well as the names and addresses of contact people for individual sites. For more information, retrieve the file /ca-domain/Introduction via anonymous ftp, or send a mail message to the mail server with "send ca-domain Introduction" in it. The information in this archive is also available via the Gopher service at nstn.ns.ca.

Finding a host name and asking someone there for help

If you know the organization, company, or whatever at which your target's account is likely to be located, then you might be able to get your hands on the host name of a machine at that location. Once you've done that, you can usually write to someone responsible for E-mail support at the site and ask for help finding the address you are seeking. See the section on 'finding host names' below.

Once you've got a host name and the person to contact, you need to figure out how to get the mail there, if it's on a network you don't know how to reach. See the "Inter-Network Mail Guide" posting referenced above if you need help with that.

If you do go this route, make sure you provide as much information as you can about the person whose address you are seeking; remember that the more detailed (and polite!) you are, the more likely it is that the person you are contacting will be able to help you. Remember, too, that the person you are contacting is probably very busy, and responding to requests like yours is probably not one of his/her highest priorities, so be patient.

Using 'finger' Entry Changed: Mon Sep 2 1996 Finger is a user information lookup program. If you've found a potential host name for your target using one of the other methods described here, and if you have direct access to the Internet, then you may be able to use the "finger" program/protocol to look up your target at a remote site. To finger someone at another site, you generally type "finger name@host". Andrew Starr maintains the Finger FAQ. Some sites provide Web-based interfaces to finger, such as Middlebury College.

Knowbot Information Service The "Knowbot Information Service" (KIS) is another white pages service.

Two hosts running KIS servers are info.cnri.reston.va.us and regulus.cs.bucknell.edu. Either can be reached on the Internet via telnet at port 185 (e.g. "telnet info.cnri.reston.va.us 185"), or via electronic mail (kis@cnri.reston.va.us or netaddress@regulus.cs.bucknell.edu). For more information about Knowbot, use the "man" command after connecting via telnet or in the body of your E-mail message. In addition, info.cnri.reston.va.us' KIS server can be reached using the Internet "whois" protocol described above.

Searching LISTSERV mailing lists Entry Changed: Tue Jul 4 1995 Many sites around the network are running the VM/CMS LISTSERV package for managing mailing lists. If you have some reason to believe that a particular user may be a member of a mailing list on a LISTSERV site, you can ask that LISTSERV to send you a membership list and search it for your target.

To do this, send mail to listserv@host (if "host" is a BITNET host, try using listserv@host.bitnet; if that doesn't work, you'll have to ask someone at your site how to send mail to BITNET hosts). In the body of your message, include the command "review list-name", where "list-name" is the name of the mailing list you wish to search.

Alternatively, sending mail to the server with the line

WHOIS <name> may catch the person. For example, listserv@buacca.bu.edu. This is an unlikely option. It also does not work with all listserv implementations. If you don't know what LISTSERV is and dont' know of any LISTSERV sites or mailing lists, then this technique probably isn't worth bothering with.

The last resort -- soc.net-people If all the methods above have failed, you can consider posting a message to soc.net-people asking for help locating your target. Before doing so, however, you should read the "Tips on using soc.net-people" posting in that newsgroup. If it has expired, you can get a copy using the instructions below (note that the name in the instructions below may change when a new version with a new date is posted, so you may need to ask for an index of the soc.net-people archive to find out the name of the most recent version).

Note that this is listed as THE last resort, to be tried even later than using a telephone number or paper mail address. Any posting to the Usenet uses the resources of the sites on the Usenet and of the networks that carry it; certainly, the total cost of transporting a Usenet message is more than the cost of a stamp or a short phone call. Since the benefit gained is to you and not to the Usenet as a whole, you should avoid posting if you possibly can.

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