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Finding email addressesLast revision September 6, 2007 How to find Stanford email addressesThe School maintains a Personnel Database that includes email addresses for people in Earth Sciences. For Stanford faculty, staff, and students, there is a central database that can be queried to find someone's email address. This directory can be accessed from the StanfordWho web page -- remember to login with your SUNet ID to see full faculty, staff and student listings. How to find non-Stanford email addressesThere is no "telephone book" for email addresses. The most certain way to get the right email address is to ask your correspondent to tell you his email address. There are web sites that collect email addresses from the major Internet Service Providers, messages posted to public forums on the Internet, and by other means, and allow you to search them by name. Some useful web sites:
Yahoo! People Search
Other good specialized sites that search for email addresses are described in a How to Find Email Addresses note maintained at the University of Maryland. Checking electronic mail addressesThe increased complexity of the Internet and the need to protect computers against hacker attacks and spammers has made it very difficult to directly query a remote computer to try to check an email address on that computer. The finger protocol was a standard network protocol, now supported by very few servers, that will respond to network requests for information about accounts on the server. It may be helpful in some cases, most likely at Universities. From a command-line login to pangea, you can run the finger program. See the page on Using the finger program for more information.
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