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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,soc.misc,misc.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: On-line Email Registry Service
Message-ID: <1713@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 88 06:37:00 GMT
References: <2575@ihuxv.ATT.COM> <21660@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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In article <21660@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>>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.
>

I've toyed with a idea along these lines about a year ago, but didn't have
time to implement it. 

Simply capture the Reply-to: or From: header lines, and possibly the
signature lines from each usenet article as it flows by. Stuff it away in a
database indexed by name, mail id, domain address, and host name. 

If you want to have some idea of what that person is interested in simply
keep track of the newsgroups he posts in. 

Something along these lines would be trivial to implement. The unfortunate
part is that it would also consume a horrendous amount of disk space which I
didn't have at the time. But I still think it's an interesting idea. 

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