Where is David Korn?

[Mike Balenger]

>>>>> On 21 Dec 90 18:59:09 GMT, morgan at ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) said:

morgan> You can refine your search by using first names and middle initials
morgan> <if known>.  You can, therefore, send mail to:
morgan>         Shmo at att.com, or
morgan>         Joe.Shmo at att.com, or even
morgan>         Joe.B.Shmo at att.com

morgan> DISCLAIMER: This information came from postmaster at att.att.com
morgan> about eight months ago.  

The additional "att." is unnecessary -- "postmaster at att.com" is OK,
just like the above addresses.

morgan> This service worked as advertised at that time.  I can't vouch
morgan> for its current status.

It still works!  Unfortunately, lots of parents named their kids
without thinking about the importance of unique identifiers :-)

Some additional help:

 o the directory search is case insensittive (i.e. "M.Balenger" or
   "m.balenger")

 o "." or "_" works for separators (i.e. "m_s_balenger" or
   "m.s.balenger"

 o "~" is some kind of fuzzy match (i.e. "balenger~") but watch out,
this can be a voluminous multi-match (359 entries, 99 unique last
names in this case -- matching such seemingly useful hints as
belanger, ballenger, bellinger, billinger, billingham, but also some
seemingly unrelated ones, too: bilmazes, blonsky bowling, blunk, and
blomgren)

 o /state=nj, /area=201 (as in area code), /exch=949 (as in phone
exchange), /ext=8789 (as in phone extension), /zip=07733 (as in postal
zip code), /zip=077 can be useful to limit the match if such
demographic info is known.  (i.e.  balenger/area=201, or
balenger/zip=077). Notice that zip being a prefix match is sometimes
useful.
	
Hope this helps you to "Reach out and grep someone"!

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