[835] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Software Sales via e-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyle Seaman)
Fri Jun 14 13:51:46 1991
From: lws@capybara.comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 13:56:59 EDT
Here's one for the temporarily quiescent "commercial uses of the
Internet" files (from soc.net-people). BTW, the product seems like
a wrapper around finger -- not much for $150. But that's just my opinion.
What's interesting and relevant to this forum is the discussion of
software media at the end of the advert.
>Path: comm.wang.com!wang!ulowell!m2c!crackers!samsung!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!xcaret
>From: xcaret@csn.org (Xcaret Research)
>Date: 13 Jun 91 23:09:45 GMT
>Organization: Colorado SuperNet Inc.
NetFind, from Xcaret Research, Inc., is a whitepages service for the
Internet. Given a person's name and location or organization, NetFind
returns their Internet electronic mail (email) address. NetFind
differs from other whitepages facilities by offering fast and up to
date service from your own machine.
[ ... info removed for brevity ... ]
NetFind uses a unique method to actively search the Internet for
your target. It does not attempt to keep a database of users across
the Internet; that would be quite large and constantly out of date.
Instead, NetFind uses the natural database of the Internet itself: it
sends multiple parallel requests across the Internet to machines
where it suspects the target may reside. NetFind queries these
machines for the name you provide as well as for leads on other
machines nearby. NetFind in turn searches these discovered
machines and so on down the hierarchy until the address is found or
there are no more machines to search. The whole process is
surprisingly fast, because NetFind sends searches out in parallel.
[ ... info removed for brevity ... ]
NetFind is sold with a single user license for $159. Please call for
educational discounts and site licensing. You may order by phone, e-
mail or postal mail (include P.O. number, check or credit card).
Please specify your domain name, Sun3 or Sun4, and the format
(electronic, floppy, 60MB, or 150MB tape). We don't charge for
floppies, but cartridge tapes are an additional $30 to cover cost.
Xcaret Research, Inc.
2060 Broadway, Suite 320
Boulder, CO 80302
(800) 736-1285
netfind@xcaret.com
