FW: Re[2]: cultural colors

George Haberberger ghaberbe at frontiernet.net
Fri May 3 05:58:30 CDT 1996


At 04:26 PM 5/2/96 PDT, JM wrote:
>Somebody on the list wrote:
>    
>ObPynchon: I've noticed an ad on cable advertising "Locate old college 
>roommates for only $39.95."  Let's each kick in 2 bucks and try to find 
>TRP.
>     
>     
>The privacy-invading "people finder" in Yahoo turned up two Thomas R. 
>Pynchons last week.  One of them was pretty clearly the novelist's father 
>on Long Island, N.Y. (who passed away last year and for whom an obituary 
>is available through the electronic library).   But who's that other one up in 
>Canton, N.Y.?   (Wouldn't that area be inside the great concavity?  (Sorry, I 
>couldn't resist. ;-) ))     The people finder in Yahoo seems to be a database 
>made up of phone book listings, or at least this is what I infer from making 
>some comparisons. BTW, if you don't want your own info displayed in 
>Yahoo for just anyone to find you can ask Yahoo to have it suppressed.     
>
-jm
>

You could also try the white pages at www.switchboard.com for a nationwide
phone listing. There's precious little privacy in cyberspace.

George





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