INTERNET SEARCH RESOURCES

Internet Email Search

Tasks, tools and methods for finding e-mail addresses

Main tasks:

• white-search e-mail addresses of a specific person;
• white-search e-mail addresses of a specific organization;
• white-search e-mail addresses in a specific organization;
• white-search for an e-mail address of a host;
• reverse white-search for a subscriber by e-mail address;
• yellow-search e-mail address of the organization.
• special case: search for e-mail addresses of educational institutions and their students;

To search for e-mail addresses of people, organizations and network nodes, the Netfind help desk (available on-line) and automatic address servers of the Whois type (available both on-line and by e-mail) are specially designed. They also fill in their address bases automatically, constantly and in bulk directly from the address bases of large network nodes (or search directly in them), which contain a fairly complete set of records about their subscribers.

Basic search tools:

• Netfind automatic help desk
• automatic address servers such as Whois;
• automatic address servers of other types;
• Yellow pages help systems containing e-mail addresses.

Additional search methods:

• special requests to the automatic servers of a mass service (newsgroups or mailing lists) or any other way to obtain a list of its subscribers;
• a request to subscribers of any mass service;
• a request to the host network personnel;
• a request to an automatic address server or to the staff of an organization that provides public access to the addresses of its correspondents (customers, partners, etc.).

Netfind help desk

Netfind on a single request performs a white search in many address databases and other help services. To use this service, you need to have the Netfind client program on your computer; in its absence, you can use telnet (logname "netfind") on any of the Netfind servers in the world:

archie.au bruno.cs.colorado.edu dino.conicit.ve

ds.internic.net lincoln.technet.sg macs.ee.mcgill.ca

malloco.ing.puc.cl monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk mudhoney.micro.umn.edu

netfind.oc.com netfind.vslib.cz nic.nm.kr

nic.uakom.sk redmont.cis.uab.edu

In addition, Netfind is available through the WWW server:

http://www.internic.net

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links

Whois server

Whois-servers perform white-searches in large databases of addresses of large nodes or entire networks. Work with whois-server occurs according to certain rules (whois-protocol), therefore it is advisable to use a special client program (whois-client). In UNIX, such a program is called: whois, it can be given the address of any of the whois-servers to search on it. Whois servers are also available via telnet.

http://www.internic.net

telnet: //nic.ddn.mil mailto: service@nic.ddn.mil HELP

telnet: //rs.internic.net mailto: mailserv@internic.net HELP

telnet: //whois.internic.net

The "main" whois-server of the Internet containing the addresses of people and nodes.

telnet: //whois.ripe.net

Whois search e-mail addresses, telephone directories.

http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/DIR000.html

Whois, Dectory Services.

ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list

List of famous whois servers.

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/whois.pl

"Reverse" Whois-search for an organization by its domain (parts of an e-mail address).

Reverse Email Search (Finger)

The Finger search service allows you to find a specific person by their full e-mail address. You can use it while in the UNIX operating system and look for subscribers on other UNIX machines (since the Internet consists of them). Finger can show the registration name of the subscriber on the remote machine (login name), some important data about him, if he indicated them (name of the organization or unit where he works and his phone), as well as the time he last read his email (you can determine whether he still uses his e-mail address). Many UNIX machines have a finger server that accepts requests not only about specific e-mail addresses, but also allows you to do various searches among your users.

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/finger.pl

X.500 help desk

The X.500 Global Reference Service brings together local reference services that look like one large hierarchical directory. Access requires a special program (local X.500 client), but if it is not, then you can use any of the available public remote X.500 clients in the world that can be accessed via telnet, through some Gopher and WWW servers, and even via e-mail:

http://www.dante.net:8888/

telnet: //ashe.cs.tcd.de de Germany

telnet: //chico.rediris.es directorio Spain

telnet: //dir.ulcc.ac.uk dua England

telnet: //elcl.mat.torun.edu.pl de Poland

telnet: //elem4.vub.ac.be dua Belgium

telnet: //hypatia.umdc.umu.se de Sweden

telnet: //jethro.ucc.su.oz.au fred Australia

telnet: //jolly.nis.garr.it de Italy

telnet: //login.dkuug.dk ds Denmark

telnet: //nic.funet.fi dua Finland

telnet: //nic.switch.ch dua Switzerland

telnet: //paradise.ulcc.ac.uk dua England (Paradise project)

telnet: //x500.denet.dk de Denmark

telnet: //x500.ieunet.ie de ireland

telnet: //x500.tu-chemnitz.de x500 Germany

telnet: //zoek.nic.surfnet.nl zoek Netherlands

mailto: Directory@uninett.no HELP

Other automatic address servers and services

telnet: //regulus.cs.bucknell.edu 185

Knowbot Information Service.

mail-to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu HELP

The server allows you to find the addresses of people who sent messages to the USENET conference.

http://okra.ucr.edu/okra/

"OKRA: net.citizen Directory Service" is one of the largest "white pages" servers on the network with 5.3 million email addresses. Search can be done by e-mail address, name, organization and host name.

http://www.benoit.com/jean/find.html

Jean's People-Finding Internet Resources.

http://www.curtin.edu.au/search/people.html

Search for people on the Internet.

http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/~masha/

Search e-mail addresses of people.
http://www.law.flinders.edu.au/othsites.htm

Search for people and geographical points.

mailto: who_is_who@kiae.su HELP

The address server of the kiae host. Contains addresses from the base of the kiae host.

mailto: ais@relarn.net.kiae.su HELP

Address server RIPN.

mailto: intermap@botik.ru HELP

Intermap Server Accumulates addresses from letters and announcements passing through it.

mailto: botik@cs.kiev.ua HELP

New Botik Server. Accumulates addresses from letters and announcements passing through it.

gopher: //rain.psg.com: 70 / 1m / networks / connect / countries / ao

Help about various networks in the world.

Yellow Pages Systems

On the Yellow Pages, classifications are usually used according to occupation, by product and service rendered, by geographical feature. Sometimes they are supplemented with white-search (just alphabetically).

http://www.four11.com

A search engine is a cross between Yellow and White Pages (he calls himself White Pages). It searches for people not only by its own name, but also by country, city, state, domain, hobby. On the server you can leave information about yourself.

http://www.lookup.com
http://s19.bigyellow.com

http://www.whowhere.com
http://superpages.gte.com

http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/~masha
http://www.yellownet.com

http://okra.ucr.edu/okra
http://www.yellow.com

http://www.ibdi.com
http://comfind.com

http://www.bigbook.com
http://www.bizweb.com

http://www.mcp.com/nrp/wwwyp

Requests for newsgroup servers and mailing lists

Mass services such as teleconferencing systems or mailing lists usually provide free access to their subscriber lists.

mailto: news@kiae.su USTAT

mailto: news@demos.su USTAT

The news servers distributing USENET news have the USTAT command, which allows receiving a list of subscribers subscribed to this or that newsgroup on this server.

mailto: listserv@bitnic.bitnet

BITNET's mailing lists let you know the composition of your subscribers.

Help from newsgroups

comp.mail.maps

In this USENET newsgroup, lists of UUCP stations are regularly published, which are then stored on many file servers.

comp.mail.misc

The FAQ on finding addresses is published regularly.

soc.college

Regularly published FAQ on finding addresses in colleges and universities.

soc-net-people

Placement of address requests, regular publication of the FAQ on finding addresses.

relcom.maps

ukr.maps

Relcom network newsgroups designed to publish address requests, as well as to post various kinds of materials that facilitate searches (for example, lists of Relcom network nodes and subscriber lists of some nodes).

Help Documents

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/finding-addresses/faq.html

A document that helps in finding e-mail addresses of people.

Disabled opportunities

The following search tools have been mentioned in various manuals, but currently either do not work at all, or their addresses have changed:

mailto: whitepages@wp.psi.com. Help

X.500 help desk server.

mailto: netserv@bitnic.bitnet HELP

mailto: listserv@bitnic.bitnet send bitnet servers

BITNIC - address server of the Bitnet network. In addition to the actual address search, it can send a list of Bitnet network nodes that have their own address databases.

mailto: kis@cnri.reston.va.us man

mailto: netaddress@regulus.cs.bucknell.edu man

netaddress@sol.bucknell.edu man

Knowbot Information Service.

mailto: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu HELP

The same as mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu.

Search for e-mail and WWW addresses of educational institutions and students

http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/college.html

A document that helps you find the addresses of people who have graduated or have already graduated from a university or college.

Some White pages and search engines:

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/coll-email.pl

Search for college email addresses.

http://www.procd.com

Directory of Directories - Contains links to more than 100 colleges and universities in the world.

http://fiaker.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/cgi-bin/phfd

University Person Finder -is a search form based database that appears to be offline.