4.4 Finding out somebody's email-address in Hungary
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This article is from the Hungarian FAQ, by Zoli Fekete fekete@bc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
4.4 Finding out somebody's email-address in Hungary
The bigger academic domains have on-line directories (CSO phonebooks):
Technical University, Budapest
gopher://goliat.eik.bme.hu/11/engl/tel-adat/hazi-tele
Budapest University of Economic Sciences*
gopher://URSUS.BKE.HU:71/11/kozgaz/telefon
(*under construction)
Semmelweis University of Medical Sciences, Budapest
<gopher://xenia.sote.hu:105/2>
Central Research Inst. of Physics, Budapest
<gopher://sunserv.kfki.hu:105/2>
Members of the Szeged University Association
<gopher://sol.cc.u-szeged.hu:105/2>
Janus Pannonius University of Sciences, Pecs
<gopher://ipiux.jpte.hu:1051/2>
<http://ipisun.jpte.hu/cgi-bin/ph.pl>
University of Veszprem
<gopher://miat0.vein.hu:105/2>
ELLA also has an on-line directory: <telnet://hugbox.sztaki.hu:203>
(i.e. address a special port). Note that the opening screen uses
special characters for the accented letters but the data records have
combinations of vowel plus ',: or " instead (i.e. searching for
hollo'si would retrieve a record, but hollosi won't)!
If the person has registered him/herself with the RaDir database of
HIX, you might try the following (note, however, that most parts of
RaDir are badly out of date):
- by <gopher://www.hix.com/11/HIX/radir> (a link to the same is
offered by <http://www.hix.com/hix/> on the World Wide Web); from
inside Hungary use <gopher://hix.elte.hu/11/HIX/HIX/radir>, or
<http://hal9000.elte.hu/hix/radir.html> (this last one is a true HTML
search form)). Under RaDir, you'll find the entire database
cross-indexed by search keys.
- by 'finger +whois:"SEARCHWORD"@www.hix.com' you can look up records
containing "SEARCHWORD" string in the database
- by email: send a blank message <mailto:radir@hix.com>. You'll
receive, in several chunks, the entire database of users, their
electronic and snail-mail addresses, etc. You'll need a decent editor
to search what you're looking for.
If you have some idea what institution to check at, you may find an
online directory service -- many are available, and could be reached
through the Hungarian gophers (or WWW sites) mentioned in section 3.
Try contacting the (electronic) postmaster, usually
postmaster@site.domain.name, or using 'finger' to inquire about users.
As a last resort, send in your query to a discussion group. Readers of
<news:soc.culture.magyar>, <mailto:HUNGARY@gwuvm.gwu.edu> discussion
list (section 1.7), or some HIX-list (<mailto:tipp@hix.com> in
particular, see 2.1) may be able to help. Be aware, though, that most
participants are located abroad - especially in the case of the Usenet
group!
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