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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:44:34 EST
Reply-To:     "James W. Green III" <green@BIGBIRD.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU>
From:         "James W. Green III" <green@BIGBIRD.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU>
Subject:      Willard Scott
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Comments: cc: "James W. Green III" <green@bigbird.BITNET>

  Does anyone have an email address for Willard Scott of
NBC's The Today Show?  I mailed him a letter Saturday from
our PO telling him my half great aunt Laura Killian would
be 101 on this Wed. 13 Jan., but wanted to add she was
born & lived 90% of her life in Chester Co., SC near Fort
Lawn, SC.  I guess you know he shows pictures of people
over 100 on their birthdays.  I sent him 2 photos & my
email address.  I will let you all know if he responds by
email.  Surley many of you have some distant relative over
100 to advertize your family.
  I know we internet people can email to & receive email
from Compuserve addresses & have done that & suspect
Willard would have at least a Compuserve address (unless
he has Prodigy).
  Prodigy still has no connection to the internet.  I
got their address by entering: "dig prodigy.com any"
which responded with 3 addresses & I did whois on each
address & got the best result from "whois ans.net" which
gave me 3 people to write.  I wrote each of them & 4 Jan
1993, one replied:

ans> Prodigy has announced that they will be offering Internet services in
ans> the near future.  They have not, however, turned on production support
ans> for this gateway as of yet.  Although I cannot speak for Prodigy's
ans> schedule, I expect the gateway will become live within the next 2-3
ans> months.

I have used finger and whois to get email addresses on computers around
the world (e.g. whois -h waikato.ac.nz Bill & finger John@emory.edu), but
have not been able to do this with compuserve subscribers.  Can it be
done? I would like to have a list of all Compuserve subscribers surnamed
Broom so I can send internet email to them.  Does compuserve have an email
address?  I went to a person's home who had Compuserve & when I got into
the email query mode, I asked it for anyone with the last name Compuserve.
Oddly, Compuserve had not entered their own name as a user/subscriber.  I
would like to suggest to them that since they are part of the internet,
that they put up a gopher to allow we internet people to gopher-in & get
their subscribers' addresses.  I will assume you all have used gopher so
won't go into that.
James W. Green III / home: Route 5, Box 720 / Winnsboro, SC 29180-9566
         internet address: Green@Bigbird.CSD.Scarolina.edu
Bigbird is a Sun4/280 running UNIX.  It is in the main Computer Services
Division Building which is on the corner of Blossom & Sumter Streets,
Columbia, SC, on the campus of & part of the University of South Carolina.

I also have a fido address, but remember fidonet is slow & not dependable
so it is better to use the above internet address, than the fido address.
 From internet, my fidonet address is: james.green@f72.n376.z1.fidonet.org
 from fidonet, my fidonet address is : james green 1:376/72

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