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Free People Searching Utilities?
nasteric asks: "I travel a lot for my job and I meet quite a few people when I go out for **beverages** It might be at a club in Spain, a pub in Ireland or at a Manhattan bar. Unfortunately, I don't bring my PDA to many of these places so I have to resort to getting email addresses/phone numbers on napkins or old receipts. I usually end up losing these napkins/receipts during the course of the night/morning and when I try to get in touch with them I usually don't remember their email address or phone number. Lately, I've been using some free online utilities to look up phone numbers/email addresses but I know there have to be better resources. As a result, I am turning to the Slashdot community for help. Does anybody know of any FREE online resources for locating email addresses/phone numbers, assuming you have the persons name and city/country of residence? Any online utility will suffice, whether it be a telephone companies website or a sited designed specifically to be an online directory." For phone numbers, about the best resource I have found is The Ultimates is a site that seems to do it all. What other similar sites have you found?
And, BTW, first post.
Have you tried just calling 411 and getting the contact info?
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Ask Slashdot: I'm an alcoholic who can't figure out how to work my PDA when being given someone's fake number at the seedy bar down the street. Can someone help me? Anyone?
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If you look in the average inbox, you'll find a fair quantity of Unsolicited Bulk Email (aka "spam").
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Umm... the best people finding utility I know of is google, try hiding from google.
Also, I should point out the obvious possibility that the person asking the question is a stalker trying to find a resource to help him track down his victim.
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www.superpages.com by verizon.
;)
even has reverse lookup... for those times when you have the girl's phone number but forget her name
I am reading slashdot right? Some how this question feels like it would be best answered by Dear Abby, this question is more about picking up women/men then computers, and as usual...if the person asking the question had searched google they would probably already have a pretty good answer.
Is there any way to have a RTFM / FSGYI (Fucking search google you idiot) policy?
The Internet is for wimps.
What happened to following people home from the bar, waiting for them to get out of work while sitting in your car, masturbating to the glimpse you get of them in the window? Then you start mailing them stuff, and stand out in their yard until the cops come and take you away!
If you're honest about the "I can't keep track of all the napkins and coasters and stuff" and are, infact, not a stalker, it sounds like you need to figure out a better way to keep track of the numbers rather than looking for them the morning after. Try a small notebook; something with pages the size of index cards would probably work nicely.
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann
If you don't have any of the info, how are you going to know what to look up?
I can see it now...
It's er, uh, Dorothy Something. On a Broken Branch or was it Falling Limb Road. In, uh, whatsthefuckingtown...
You could also try anywho.com, although the pop-up ads will drive you right back to the bar. (They will not, however, buy you drinks.)
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Slashdot's ads are getting more insidious every day. I didn't see any fine print at the bottom of the question... "This question sponsored by The Ultimates"... How about clicking through before posting a story? Please?
--jdp Maintainer of VisEmacs
Well, it was a nice thought, anyway
Go to brbpub.com. There is a public records link on the left. You can search through federal, state and county public record sites. It's the best I have seen so far, that's free.
-ft
AnyWho is run by AT&T. It seems fairly complete, and is regularly updated.
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For within the US at least, Google does a pretty good job.
Try: FirstName LastName State
or
LastName City State
or
Just Phone Number
And, of course you have to love the link to the address on mapquest...
-spreer
Cmdr Taco
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Ask Slashdot:
I have a great source of names and phone numbers (The Phone Book) and I was wondering if there is a database somewhere to correlate the names to e-mail addresses so I can spam the planet...
Um.. NO
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Free people searching utilities?
Hands.
So long as you you don't mean Free as in Not Going To Jail, that is...
So what type of utility is this? It searches for people to free?
From what?
*confused look*
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
Some of these resources are awesome! They are definitely going to be bookmarked.
It's understandable the some people are concerned about the potential for people to use a people searching resource for horrible reasons. However, the fact is that these resources come in handy quite a bit when meeting people out on the road and you forget their email address. If all I know is that they had a Yahoo address, I usually turn to Yahoo People Search and it usually comes up with a match. It's unfortunate that a few bad apples can ruin this type of resource for the rest of us, but thats just the way it is.
I usually Try whitepages.com that usually work. But the best solution is call a Notepad. (Not the one that come with windows) It is bunch of pieces of paper atached to a heavy cardboard back usually held together with a Wire that is wrapped in a spring pattern. This sping pattern is just the right size to carrie a pen. Its small portable, cheap, professional without being geeky, Fast to enter data. Great batery life. Cant go wrong with a notepad.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
i'm too lazy to use google please do my work for me........
From what you said, you travel a lot. "The Ultimates" is for US only.
;)
Pity. Keep on searching.
I shall refrain from making apt derogatory comments regarding bars and picking up women. Iam an adult, after all.
Me.
Why not just learn a new way to remember phone numbers, email addresses, etc? This is what mnemonics were made for! Uber geeks can laugh that they'll never be without their PDA, but hey.
http://mnemisis.sourceforge.net/
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
It also has a reverse lookup, so if you have someone's phone number, it gives your their name and address.
www.infospace.com provides the same service for the States. In fact, I believe InfoSpace is the enginer behind 411.ca
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
My one concern with these types of services is the possibility of abuse. Let's say, for example, that you're running away from an abusive spouse/parent/stalker etc. Chances are good you don't want them to find you. Yet these services, while wholly useful for looking up innocently forgotten phone numbers, make it that much easier for you to be located.
I love these services, but there is a big potential for abuse.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
Even better, you can find a lawyer with ease when you get arrested for stalking!