Finding a Person In the relatively recent past, finding an e-mail address or phone number via the Net was quite difficult. It still is not dead easy but it is vastly improved. Many colleges and universities have made their "phone books" available online. Often you can get mail list subscription files. You might tap a usenet address server and finally there is always "finger". A bit to complex, well yes, but how badly do you need the address? An exercise for students: How does "finger" work? You want it easy. Let us try: Yahoo people search Switchboard - Phones InfoSpace These service includes both people and business listings. Also, they are a bit sensitive. For example, they insists that you enter names exactly as listed in the phone book. Some do accept wild cards however. An Exercise for the students: Find yourself! Finally there is a very nice paper on the subject of finding people, written by Joan Korenman of UMBC.

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