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From: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: White Pages software
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.145730.15052@uu.psi.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 14:57:30 GMT
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Reply-To: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
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That is reasonably accurate synopsis of the WP for ISODE.  A couple
of other highlights are:

	1) it supports soundex, thereby matching smith/smythe etc..
	2) it supports images
	
One of the interesting proposals (by NYU actually) is to include
maps under the organization information (@o=) and under the organizational
unit section (@ou=).  This might allow a person visiting NYU to get a
map of how to get to NYU through a map of Manhatten, and then to
a specific department through a picture of what the building looks like.

Marty

>
>The White Pages part of Andrew isn't hard to get running by itself, but
>it doesn't interoperate with the ISODE-based stuff.  They serve totally
>different goals.  Andrew's WP, loosely, is meant to replace the local
>/etc/passwd and /usr/lib/aliases, as well as supporting fuzzy name
>lookup and the like.  As I understand the ISODE-based stuff, it's meant
>for locating individuals that may be at any of many
>separately-administered locations.
>