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From: ricks@tekcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Using the Net to Help Find Missing K - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 04:26:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 04:26:52 1983
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tekcad!paulp    Oct 16 20:48:00 1983

I would have no patience reading through a list of N * 100 names and
descriptions.  Some sort of screening mechanism is needed.  Are you
going to look through several thousand entries if you noticed some kid
hanging around the drug store?  Finding a body involves the police
anyway and they have a great deal more in the way of identification
resources.

Local police act as a reasonable screening service.  If missing children's
names were entered into one of the computer services they use for looking
up records on people, a great many could be located their first time thru
a cop shop.

         Paul Pomes

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