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From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
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Subject: Email Addresses: Public? Private?  Somewhere in Between?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 20:46:22 GMT
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After all the discussion about email addresses at AT&T and elsewhere,
I thought I'd pass on some information from att.com:

One can obtain the email addresses of AT&T employees by several means.

If you send email to "lastname@att.com", you receive via return email
a listing of all AT&T employees with that last name who have email
addresses.  "firstname.lastname@att.com" works as well, narrowing your
search significantly.  Finally, "firstname.middleinitial.lastname@
att.com" returns the email address corresponding to a specific name.

This might be a way of deciding whether or not AT&T considers an
individual's email address to be "public".  If email to "Robert.Allen
@att.com" returns a valid email address, I would consider that address
to be public information.


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