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Switchboard.com does the same thing...it's not very hard to find someone's address/phone number given their name and city.
Besides, what would MS do with your address? Snail-mail-spam you?

antique automobiles
See also: used cars.

auto mechanic
See also: car parts.
See also: engine repair.

Seriously though. You don't have to use data mining for that. All you need is a directory. It's an idea that web portals have been toying with for a long time (ten years ago, aol, webcrawler and yahoo all had rudimentary versions).

http://www.google.com/dirhp
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.superpages.com/
http://www.switchboard.com/
http://www.yellowbook.com/
http://www.whitepages.com/

probably these folks are all innocent

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiQA.dll?MEM=1&LNK =3%3A154&QV=02A8D624CEE47F42D4303203O01D117A25D278 942AF303203O07D114A25D278942A8303203O03D12F3D5D278 94294303203&SR=&F=Maureen+&L=O'Gara&T=&S=&Z=&image 1.x=0&image1.y=0

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?SR=&MEM=1 &Search=Search&F=m.&L=O'Gara&T=&S=

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?SR=&MEM=1 &Search=Search&F=&L=O'Gara&T=&S=

powerful when used with:
http://local.google.com/lochp?hl=en&lr=&near=&btnG =Search&sc=1

probably these folks are all innocent

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiQA.dll?MEM=1&LNK =3%3A154&QV=02A8D624CEE47F42D4303203O01D117A25D278 942AF303203O07D114A25D278942A8303203O03D12F3D5D278 94294303203&SR=&F=Maureen+&L=O'Gara&T=&S=&Z=&image 1.x=0&image1.y=0

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?SR=&MEM=1 &Search=Search&F=m.&L=O'Gara&T=&S=

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?SR=&MEM=1 &Search=Search&F=&L=O'Gara&T=&S=

powerful when used with:
http://local.google.com/lochp?hl=en&lr=&near=&btnG =Search&sc=1

probably these folks are all innocent

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiQA.dll?MEM=1&LNK =3%3A154&QV=02A8D624CEE47F42D4303203O01D117A25D278 942AF303203O07D114A25D278942A8303203O03D12F3D5D278 94294303203&SR=&F=Maureen+&L=O'Gara&T=&S=&Z=&image 1.x=0&image1.y=0

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?SR=&MEM=1 &Search=Search&F=m.&L=O'Gara&T=&S=

http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?SR=&MEM=1 &Search=Search&F=&L=O'Gara&T=&S=

powerful when used with:
http://local.google.com/lochp?hl=en&lr=&near=&btnG =Search&sc=1

I don't know who's charging for that kind of service, but mapsonus lets you choose the route type (fastest | shortest | favor freeways | avoid freeways) and add intermediate destinations for free.

1) What is the Justice Department doing about the harrassment of Black Voting Leagues in Florida? If the answer (which I suspect it is) is "nothing" than this a clear case of government being used in a partisan and heavy-handed manner. It's also racist and classist. 2) I don't know about your state, but the Georgia GOP's website already lists already lists their delegates as well as the alternates for all to see. Just plug the name into Switchboard and you can get their addresses. Conclusion? This is a disingenuous, partisan, racist, classist abuse of the Justice Department. Someone else want to argue that point?

Speaking of people named Moron, go to Switchboard and do a search on different words for last name.

LOTS of freaks in this world, and hundreds of people named Moron.

No kiddin'. Check it out. Hours of fun.

RS

I am surprise that no one has even mentioned
mapsonus yet. The service has many nice features, gray printing, labeling, different resolutions, and sizes. It even has this feature to select "less feature" on a map if you want to have only major streets and temporarily ignore the smaller details at the current resolution/zooming ratio.

And it is free and fast (webbased)

It works great for me all these years. I believe the tech is from TeleAtlas NA. I had used mapblast/yahoo fro directions and maps in Southern California and both performed badly, gave out wrong directions at various times.

During a long road trip in 2000 thru the Southwest (CA/AZ/NM/TX) I used the mapsonus service to map the whole trip and it worked great without any errors. I am still using it to this date. Try it out and see if it works the same for you.

I typically use Yahoo! maps, but sometimes (like rush hour) I want a route that will avoid major freeways. I may be oblivious to other alternatives, but I've only found this feature at switchboard.com (which actually takes you to mapsonus.com, a service of switchboard, but anyway...)

You can also tell it to Favor Major Freeways if you need that for some reason.

mapsonus.com can do that, just add an intermediate address.

Registrant:
Fanger, Robert (ATACONNECT-DOM)
Fanger Communications
238 S. Meridian St.
Ste. 210
Indianapolis, IN 46225
US

Domain Name: ATACONNECT.ORG

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Fanger, Robert (DUMHRQNOBI) rfanger@fangercom.com
Fanger Communications
238 S. Meridian St.
Ste. 210
Indianapolis, IN 46225
US
317-636-7635

Record expires on 12-Oct-2004.
Record created on 08-Sep-2002.
Database last updated on 5-Oct-2003 11:36:03 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.WEST-DATACENTER.NET 69.36.161.11
NS2.WEST-DATACENTER.NET 69.36.161.12

It shouldn't be to difficult from here to try http://www.switchboard.com/ to locate his home number.

HTH

Shame on you all! You're convicting this poor fellow purely through secondhand sources. I think you should all make an effort to contact him and get his side of the story firsthand.

Lawyers are never home, so perhaps you'd want to write, fax, or e-mail him at his place of business, according to his profile on his firm's website:

Colin J. Zick
Foley Hoag, L.L.P.
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210-2600
(617) 832-1275 direct line
(617) 832-1000 firm switchboard
(617) 832-7000 fax
czick@foleyhoag.com e-mail

Of course, lawyers do bring their work home occasionally. If you want to talk to him on a weekend about this matter, perhaps you could check on Switchboard.Com, where'd you see that Colin & Jean Zick have the same address and telephone number:

Colin & Jean Zick
1 Sentry Hill Place
Boston, MA 02114-3505
(617) 723-7329

Interesting that all this information is easily locatable on his firm's website and Switchboard, so he must want people to easily be able to get ahold of him. I wouldn't be concerned.

Of course, please don't abuse my provision of these addresses and telephone numbers.

After all, the man may have decided to bring a frivolous lawsuit against a 66-year-old grandmother who never got near Kazaa and hardly knows how to use a computer.

And, when he found out he was wrong, he didn't apologize, and he made sure to dismiss his suit before the court could in order that he might sue her again if he wanted to.

But he is, no doubt, a deeply ethical man, and I urge you all to contact him to inform him precisely how ethical he is.

He is, no doubt, as ethical a man as, say, Alan Ralsky. What happened to Alan Ralsky was absolutely shameful. Let us hope it doesn't happen to Mr. Zick, you wicked people.

• Whitepages
• Infospace
• Switchboard

RTFA. Techdirt specifically said the threat had nothing to do with their decision, since it was unlikely to happen and even less likely to succeed. They pulled the information out of respect for privacy.

Personally, I disagree. In general, a business has little or no right to privacy; their address is required by law to be public knowledge. IMHO, a business that intentionally intrudes on people's lives deserves none at all. But more importantly, contact information for Alyxsandra Sachs is public, not private:

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• Switchboard

Furthermore: from the NYT article: "These antispammers should get a life," she said. "Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"

Between downloading it from our mail server, sorting it into a local folder, skimming the preview, and pressing delete, my office spends a couple thousand dollars a year in salaried employee time. Does that answer your question, Alyx?

I've been trying to get myself on this list using the online sign-up, but it keeps having technical difficulties. I hope that the loopholes are tight enough for this to be relatively effective, but I'm very skeptical. What I really want to know is how the website works b/c it seems like I can type anyone's phone# in and have them entered on the list. Seems that a good samartin could whip up a bit of code that would transfer switchboard's MA listings into the govconnect input field.

There's still one family member out there who hasn't changed their name

Pretty sure this is him.

...a possible address

Ralsky, Alan M
5016 Patrick Rd,
West Bloomfield,
MI 48322-1543
(248)661-3355

And say hi from me with a whack by a clue-by-four

Get a clue, people. The crime is committed by the person who does the killing, not the people spreading info.

Now, if these people were offering incentives to kill the doctors, it'd be a different story. But theyr'e not, and if some twisted psycho kills one of these doctors, it's not the fault of the website operators.

Once again, you're placing blame for other people's actions on a third party, and punishing the third party. Kinda like abortion. Parents screwed up, so let's kill the kid. Everyone's happy, right?

Talk to anyone that works in a bagel or donut shop and they will tell you that they throw away hundreds/thousands of units a week. Basically what isn't purchased is discarded. Surely we can think to give the units to the homeless/hungry/needy-cause, but there is apparently a legal reason not to do so.

My first job ever was at a franchise of a certain somewhat large fast-food chain, and it wasn't long before I asked why the food that was "QC'd" was pitched instead of held and shipped off to one of the local shelters. Liability was the primary reason...if some bum got sick off of a freebie burger, he could've contacted any of the hundreds of ambulance chasers in this town and sued the store into oblivion. It was hella wasteful...about the only thing you could do is keep an eye on production to minimize the waste, but it was nearly impossible to eliminate it completely.

Sorry about this, but slashcode wouldn't let me post this in response to the article...

Personally, I've lived in Portland, Oregon for all my 22 years, and would like to stay here. RidgeRun is in Boise, Idaho, so I do some commuting (less than 2 hours door-to-door), but it is telecommuting for the most part. [Emphasis mine...]

Uh, according to Maps.com, the distance between Boise and Portland is ~421 miles. I know you can drive fast out west, but I don't think that hitting 250 is acceptable...

But her home address doe s exist.

If it is fake, then he's stupid for using valid names/addresses:Rodona Garst and Varnjeet Khalsa. I'm going on the assumption that he doesn't want a libel lawsuit, and so it's at least mostly true.

If it is fake, then he's stupid for using valid names/addresses:Rodona Garst and Varnjeet Khalsa. I'm going on the assumption that he doesn't want a libel lawsuit, and so it's at least mostly true.

*whacks forehead* Norton! *whacks forehead* Norton!
Too much influence from reading the AC idiots posting below.
As for Peter Norton, there are plenty of those also.

The guy on the symantec products is busy writing books last I checked. (Don't buy from Amazon.com, but do waste their bandwidth by looking for books there.) I can't imagine he'd be involved with this outfit.

North isn't an uncommon name, anyway. A quick romp through the phonebook will turn up at least 19 Peter Norths living in the US.

According to the IMDB, Waterworld cost $175 million to make, grossed $255.2 million worldwide, and netted $42.358 million in rental fees. By my math, Waterworld made a profit of $122.558 million. While that is a poor return on a fifth of a billion dollars, it's hardly a true loss in the sense that The Stupids and Baby's Day Out were.

And in any event, it's a nonsequitur since Waterworld was a privately funded for-profit venture whereas the trip to Mars would likely be a publicly funded for-science venture.

No, no, no...if more responsible public officials got ten thousand irate telephone calls every time they did something incredibly stupid, such as blocking internet sites, they'd learn.

By all means, call him all you want at the office, but I will continue to assert that he deserves a modicum of privacy in his own home.

Yes, you can get his number out of the phonebook. Heck, you can even get it online. But should the response be "Here's his number; go hammer him!"? Must you employ massive retaliation where other methods have not yet been used and where there's no reason to suspect they won't be effective?

This argument has taken me where I didn't plan to venture, I must admit, since I'm usually the asshole who's fomenting the masses and preaching civil disobedience. By all means, use the system (and subvert the dominant paradigm), but do it responsibly where appropriate (and this is such an instance).

If you want to get back at a University policy, you don't verbally assault its president. You simply aim the media's spotlight at the policy. Just look at the infamous water buffalo affair at UPenn, for example -- colleges and universities simply cannot withstand proper scrutiny. Go about it that way -- if you have to hammer someone, let it be Rupert Murdoch and his ilk.

If he lives in NY, NY, he might be one of the six people listed here. Keeping with the spirit of Doubleclick, you could just randomly choose one of them and have that person's privacy royally invaded.

A search engine that, while popular, can't match the quality of some of its upstart competition, ie google.

A portal that, while somewhat popular, is not much better than any other portal, and portals are a dime-a-dozen these days.

Some web-auction services that, quite frankly, aren't going to unseat ebay any time soon.

Web-based email service, as if no one else is doing that these days.

An online yellow-pages-like business directory -- a market that lots of companies are entering and which has had a lot of competition (like switchboard) for a while.

Plus some other assorted things like stockquotes, weather, etc. that are well covered by other sites.

All altavista has going for it right now is an established brand name and an established web presence. While those two things are good to have, their value is diminished as most of the rest of the business world gets onto the web. There's room for altavista to make some sort of profit, perhaps, but it likely wouldn't be soon, and it certainly wouldn't justify a multi-billion-dollar market cap. Most internet IPOs just don't.

Then I decided to have information look up LinuxOne, Inc.'s phone number... no luck, again.

A quick trip to mapsonus.com gave me the location of LinuxOne based on the domain's street address. Seeing as how my office is at the intersection of Villa Dr. and N. Shorline Blvd, I have decided to visit the LinuxOne "office" after work today.

Yes, I am insane... and I'll tell you where that insanity leads me in an hour or so...

Well since they are selling my info, I thought I might post theirs... But when I went to InfoUSA to find an address and number for their CEO, Vinod Gupta, I found he wasn't listed. InfoUSA is the company that will be reselling our information, however, it seems that some people care about their own privacy at the expense of others. I urge anyone who knows it to post his address, phone number, and the number of employees that he has. As a side note, the name of the NSI executive (Douglas Wolford) from the news.com story was also unlisted (on Switchboard).

I went to several search engines, including InfoSeek and AltaVista, and I found lots of dud leads (dead links and near misses). But eventually I hit pay dirt. I found a Web site and discovered what Ralph looks like (he has a picture of himself eating lobster) and that he is a scriptwriter.
This made me think. Why not track down the author (um. .Hacker) of this article. And here is my trail...

On the CNN article. I clicked on the "Network World Fusion - IGT.net Site". Hmm.. From there I typed his name into the search box on the top left hand corner. Searched......

What? A password dialog??? Well, blah.. I typed cyberpunks/cyberpunks to bypass this and got several articles linked to his name..

Clicked on the first.. clicked on "Get sensible about securing your internet", saw a link to www.gibbs.com.. hmmm I didnt bother going there...

Instead did a whois on gibbs.com and came up with..
Gibbs & Co (GIBBS-DOM) 266 North Glen Ellen Drive Dept. RTNI Ventura, CA 93003 US
Billing Contact: Gibbs, Mark (MG140) mgibbs@GIBBS.COM (805) 643-4999 (FAX) (805) 641-7711
Hmm phone number eh? Lets find out where he is.. so following his path, i went over to switch board.com and did a person find for a mark gibbs from ventura, CA. and got the following.. Mark Gibbs Info

It has his phone number, address and whatnots.. do you need his blood group type?

doomy too lazy to login...