netfind via the web

Netfind is a very powerful tool for locating someone's email address. Login as "netfind", and select "search" from the menu. Then enter one name for the person you're looking for (the name most likely to be unique), followed by as many other bits of organizational and geographic information as you want, separated by spaces. For instance, if I were searching for my own email address, I would enter something like this:

Enter person and keys (blank to exit) --> brick university washington seattle washington
Since the University of Washington is so large, it would probably respond with something like this:

locate: first key (university) matched too many refs Please select at most 3 of the following domains to search:
Followed by a long list of computers at the UW, each preceded by a number. I'd then choose 3 of the most likely looking computers and enter their numbers.

The process can sometimes take quite awhile (1-15 minutes), and there are no guarantees that anything will be found. The best way, still, to find a person's email address is to call them and ask, but Netfind is perhaps the next-best way.

Here is a list of Netfind servers. Select the one nearest you, and good luck.

Douglas Brick / dbrick@speakeasy.net