Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l
Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:12:49 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      E-Mail Address Directories

5 Messages, 99 Lines
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From: Gregory.A.Finnegan@dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: E-Mail Addresses in Telephone Directories
Dartmouth College handles e-mail addresses differently.  They're not listing
in campus phone directory, but that is an endangered species anyway (wasn't
issued widely last year; second copies to recipients (and offices) had a $10
charge this year.  But the real reason that's less important, and why not
listing e-mail addresses, is that EVERYONE (student/faculty/staff)
automatically has free computer account, including e-mail.  And all that
(e-mail, passwording of licensed databases on the library on-line system,
etc.) is handled by "Dartmouth Name Directory."  If you're here, you're in
it.  It can be searched from e-mail system, and even from a stand-alone "Desk
Accessory" (we're Mac universe) called "DND Lookup."  Entries include name &
nicknames, campus mail address, voice phone no., and preferred mail (e-mail
or otherwise; e-mail sent to non-e-mail users is printed out & sent to their
mailbox.)  So it's no trouble IF YOU'RE WITHIN DARTMOUTH to find e-mail
address.  But for those outside Dartmouth, all one need do is suffix a
person's name w/
"  @Dartmouth.edu  " to get the message here, whereupon the DND resolves the
address and routes accordingly.

Greg.Finnegan@Dartmouth.edu
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From: S02337%FLC@VAXF.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: E-Mail Addresses in Telephone Directories
Hi, netfriends, Mitch in Durango >s02337@flc.colorado.edu<

Colorado State has pretty pink pages with lots of email addresses.  Ft. Lewis
College has a system that doesn't need a directory for faculty:

>lastname_F@flc.colorado.edu<

Where "F" = Firstname initial.

Students at Ft. Lewis have numbers and the mail prog can sometimes use
personal names of choice but better to have the comp center assingned #.

At Colorado State you can be a student with a job and an account and get listed
with the faculty.

I tried to reply with this inforamtion the inquirer but the infromation
bounced back.  I am consistantly impressesed with the lead that Hong Kong
has in digital communications.

Mitch s02337@flc.colorado.edu
KB0GNY temporary VT says 73
:)
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From: Ray.Jones@cc.utas.edu.au
Subject: Re: E-Mail Addresses in Telephone Directories
The University of Tasmania will be including Internet addresses in the
printed telephone directory from the 1992 edition.

Electronic versions of the e-mail and telephone directories have been
available for general access since early 1991.

Ray Jones
Communications Manager
University of Tasmania
Ray.Jones@cc.utas.edu.au
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From: me@SUZUKA.U-STRASBG.FR(Michel Eytan LILoL)
Subject: Re:  E-Mail Addresses in Telephone Directories
May I add my grain of salt to the subject? Putting e-mail addresses in
telephone directories is fine -- if you have the telephone directory. It is
quite impossible to have telephone directories of insitutions all over the
world. What is required is a means of accessing an ONLINE e-mail directory.

Yes, yes, I already hear people all over the Net shouting: you have WAIS (ever
tried to create a wais-station?), you have WhitePages (if your system has
them!), you have Netfind (yeah, except that 9 times out of 10 I get a message:
'x.y.z appears not to be on the Internet. Netfind can only locate people with
accounts on Internet hosts'), you have 'finger' (unless you get the message
'connection refused'), you have Knowbot, etc etc ...

What is needeed is ONE place on the Net where you could find instantly and
without restriction (except if you paid for it, or some other painful
condition) e-mails corresponding to NAMES, including Bitnet, uucp and all
others variants.

*=michel eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
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From: pfa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (PF Anderson)
Subject: Re: E-Mail Addresses in Telephone Directories
Northwestern University has listed e-mail addresses with
the phone listings in the directory for a couple years
now. Even though we have an online e-mail directory,
I still sometimes  find it impossible to find
certain people any other way. It is a great help.

P. F. Anderson
Learning Resources Center
Galter Library
Northwestern University
303 E. Chicago Ave
Chicago IL 60611
pfa@nwu.edu
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