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Personal Directory Services

The most dificult task on the Internet is finding a person.

How can you locate one of the 200 +/- 50 million people on the Internet?

How can you know that someone you are looking for actually has an Intrnet identity?

How can you control your own Internet identity? Who owns your Internet identity, anyway?

The following "personal" services go some way towards locating persons. However, none provides an Internet wide service.

Are you the person with whom I wish to Speak?


Finger

Try finger @extro.ucc.su.oz.au to see how system security may be compromised.

WhoIs


USENet User List


Fred and the White Pages

Telnet to the White Pages at Adelaide University

Knowbot Information Service

Telnet to KIS

NetFind


Netscape People Finder

From the Netscape Navigator/Communicator main menu (it changes with different versions of Navigator/Communicator) select Serch. This connects you to a selection of person search engines.

Aldea Directory

Aldea Directory

Four Eleven Directory

Four Eleven Directory

Professional Services


Phone Books On-line


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