wisen@inmet.UUCP (01/03/84)
#N:inmet:4000043:000:745 inmet!wisen Jan 2 12:15:00 1984 If the proposed UUCP network directory will contain as much information as Rick Kiessig (idi!kiessig) seeks, then it will be subject to abuse by headhunters, etc. Also, nobody should have their home addresses and phone numbers listed without their permission (translation: don't have the department secretary type in the company mailing list). Although I'm curious about the people and finite-state-automatons out there, I suggest everybody think about the possible uses and abuses of this information before responding to the survey. . |\ ------Bruce Wisentaner /| \ cca!ima!inmet / | \ } !wisen o / | \ harpo!inmet ^_. _/___|===== O\/`O \_______/] \_(
bhyde@inmet.UUCP (01/03/84)
#R:inmet:4000043:inmet:4000044:000:422 inmet!bhyde Jan 2 23:23:00 1984 I had been wondering recently if there was a single request, or series of requests that one could post to the net that would cause such a huge response that it would shake the phone bills of the parties involved. This network users directory seems a good try. I hope that Rick has got a lot of disk space, and strong fingers to handle the billions and billions of characters of input (all in slightly different formats).
tower@inmet.UUCP (01/03/84)
#R:inmet:4000043:inmet:4000045:000:888 inmet!tower Jan 3 01:00:00 1984 Re: UUCP Users Directory I worry more about the phone bills at each site, when this directory is distributed via USENET. Not to mention the line printer paper used up when each user at a site gets his own copy? And it should be distributed every few months to be really useful! Or does this fine hacker and his company have the $$ to print and mail a copy to each site regularly? Perhaps, the directory should be set up to be queriable via Mail? All the people at a site. All the people with name "x". Et. Al. I think this idea needs a lot of discussion. I, for one, need to be convinced this is worth the resources. I believe the occasional queries in net.wanted, et. al. are much more cost effective!! -len tower harpo!inmet!tower Cambridge, MA PS: Finally I wonder, if the 3 responses generated here at inmet are indicative of the total we'll see in net.followup?