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From: miller@ACORN.CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Academic Email Directory Needed in Cognitive/Biobehavioral Sciences
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Date: 24 May 88 23:25:03 GMT
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    Date: 24 May 88 15:52:07 GMT
    From: harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad)

	    What triggered the idea was a notice on comp.society.futures about a
    commercial email registry (National Email Register) that provides a
    directory and searching for a fee to the commercial community. I have
    no idea what proportion of the academic email community they have
    listed, but it seems ridiculous that access to email addresses -- an
    underutilized, powerful resource in urgent need of expansion and
    encouragement -- should be retarded by the need to pay for and access
    a commercial service for a fee. It's as if people had not yet discovered the
    virtues of the telephone, yet could only find one another's numbers if
    they paid a fee.

What's wrong with the CSNet nameserver?
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Brad Miller		U. Rochester Comp Sci Dept.
miller@cs.rochester.edu {...allegra!rochester!miller}