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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,soc.misc,misc.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: On-line Email Registry Service
Message-ID: <21660@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 14 Apr 88 14:42:56 GMT
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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In-reply-to: tedk@ihuxv.ATT.COM's message of 13 Apr 88 21:54:29 GMT



>To Register:
>Dial (203) 245-7720 or (800) 622-0505  with your modem 
>(300-1200-2400 baud)
>Every form of E-mail including CompuServe, The Sources and most 
>of the others are listed under "commerial" services. 
>UUCP/USENET/NETNEWS  addresses are listed under "non-commerial" services.
>AT&T E-mail service is listed under "commerial" services.

I assume this is some attempt at building an on-line white pages
of e-mail addresses.

If anyone knows anything about this I would be curious how they
prevent trivial fraud, such as my listing myself as Ronald Reagan and
setting up an account rr@bu-cs.bu.edu (ok, that would be a little
blatant, but you get the idea.)

If someone could solve this problem I'd probably set up a white
pages server for free here.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University