This article is from the Italy FAQ, by Gianluigi Sartori gg@angel.stanford.edu, Paolo Fiorini fiorini@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov with numerous contributions by others.
Last modified: June 7 1993
Mauro Orlandini <orlandini@botes1.bo.cnr.it> writes:
This is a special case of the more general question: "I know someone's
name, and I think he might have an electronic mail address somewhere.
How can I find it?"
There are programs that, given some amount of information about your
associate, can help you track down his or her e-mail address. These tools
include Netfind, X.500, rtfm's usenet-addresses search, and WHOIS. The
more information you know about your associate - name, place of business,
school - the higher the chances are.
For a complete answer to this question, read "FAQ: how to find people's
e-mail address", available from mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu by sending in
the body of a message
"send usenet/news.answers/finding-addresses"
This document is posted regularly in the usenet group news.answers
>From Scott Yanoff "Special Internet Connections":
*USER LOOKUP SERVICES/WHOIS SERVICES
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-Mail Srvr/Usr Lookup mail mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
in body of mail message: send usenet-addresses/[name searching for]
-Netfind User Lookup telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu or telnet 128.138.243.151
telnet mudhoney.micro.umn.edu or telnet 134.84.132.7
telnet redmont.cis.uab.edu or telnet 138.26.64.4
telnet netfind.oc.com or telnet 192.82.215.92
telnet archie.au or telnet 139.130.4.6
telnet malloco.ing.puc.cl or telnet 146.155.1.43
telnet nic.uakom.cs or telnet 192.108.131.12
telnet lincoln.technet.sg or telnet 192.169.33.6
telnet monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk or telnet 155.198.5.3
telnet dino.conicit.ve or telnet 150.188.1.10
offers: Given a name and org./school, finds a user for you (login: netfind)
-Whois Service List ftp sipb.mit.edu (pub/whois/whois-servers.list)
offers: List of "whois" servers.
-Whois Services telnet rs.internic.net or telnet 198.41.0.5
mail service@rs.internic.net (w/ subject: help OR
send RFC-xxxx.TXT, with xxxx being the RFC number)
telnet cnri.reston.va.us 185 (Knowbot Info Serv.)
offers: Way to find internet address given a keyword. To access type: whois
 
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