Email is one of the Internet's most powerful tools.
It has changed the way we communicate with both friends and colleagues and has become so popular that there are now more than 100,000 mailing lists on the Internet. More than 60 million people currently have email access, and some studies suggest that by the year 2000, worldwide email access will skyrocket to an astounding 450 million individuals. But with so many users, tracking down an individual's email address can be a vast undertaking. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the best resources and strategies available for searching email addresses. Most people have experienced looking in the local yellow pages for a phone number, but imagine trying to find a particular John Doe in a yellow pages directory that includes phone numbers from hundreds of cities all over the U.S. and the world.