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Free People Searching Utilities?

Posted by Cliff on from the reach-out-reach-out-and-touch-someone dept.

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?

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  1. pull it together, man by tps12 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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    1. Re:pull it together, man by Otter · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seriously --- bro, if you're so drunk that you can't hang on to a coaster or napkin until you get home, you might be in for a nasty shock if you did manage to arrange a daytime meeting with the "babe" you were talking to the night before.

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  2. Google. by m0rph3us0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm... the best people finding utility I know of is google, try hiding from google.

  3. Stalkers, what do you use? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    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!

  4. It's a survival mechanism. by cornice · · Score: 5, Funny
    when I go out for **beverages** --snip-- I usually end up losing these napkins/receipts

    Your subconscious mind is only trying to protect you.