cni-directories: netfind Internet "white pages" tool available by FTP
netfind Internet "white pages" tool available by FTP
Mike Schwartz (schwartz@LATOUR.CS.COLORADO.EDU)
Mon, 2 Mar 1992 12:49:50 -0700
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1992 12:49:50 -0700
From: Mike Schwartz <schwartz@LATOUR.CS.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: netfind Internet "white pages" tool available by FTP
To: Celine Alvey <ALVEY@USCVM.BITNET>,
The netfind Internet white pages tool is now available by anonymous FTP
from ftp.cs.colorado.edu, in pub/cs/distribs/netfind. Netfind may be
freely used and distributed as per the copyright notice in the software.
People who had earlier versions might want to get the current version,
since it has substantial improvements.
The techniques used by netfind are quite different from those used by
the CCITT X.500 directory service. Given the name of a person on the
Internet and a rough description of where the person works, netfind
attempts to locate telephone and electronic mailbox information about
the person, using a number of sources of Internet information. Netfind
can locate millions of people at thousands of sites world wide. Netfind
runs on Suns running SunOS 4.0 or more recent. It is quite easy to
install and use.
A paper about netfind appeared in:
M. F. Schwartz and P. G. Tsirigotis. Experience with a
Semantically Cognizant Internet White Pages Directory Tool.
Journal of Internetworking: Research and Experience, 2(1), pp.
23-50, March 1991.
A pre-publication version of this paper is included in the anonymous FTP
package mentioned above. Papers about the resource discovery project
within which this work was carried out are available from
ftp.cs.colorado.edu, in pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/RD.Papers.
- Mike Schwartz
Dept. of Computer Science
U. Colorado - Boulder
schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
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